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Baby Amiga launched
THE GIANT Ce&ir electronics show
held in Hanover, Germany at the end
of March was the launch pad for
Commodore's latest Amiga, the A6U0.
Basic details of the machine were
exclusively revealed in the January
Issue of Amiga Computing, when It
me known as the A30O.
The A600 is similar to the ASMP,
It is housed in a smaller ease without
the numeric keyboard and looks
more like the C64 than any other
Amiga.
Enhancements include a built-in
TV modulator and the ability to use
memory cards of between 512k and
four megabytes capacity.
Memory cards offer advantages
over traditional storage methods
including speed and. memory saving,
and they are more Secure against soft-
ware piracy. However, they cost
much more than floppy disks.
The new Amiga can be bought
with or without an internal haTd disk
drive. Supplied with a hard drive, the
machine is called rhe A600-.HD.
Storage capacity ranges from 20 to
120Mb and standard A600 models
John Butters reports
from Hanover
can have drives fitted as extras.
Using surface mount technology,
the computer does not have the
ASOOP's side expansion port, and the
trapdoor underneath has been made
non-standard. Owners will be unable
to use many existing Amiga acces-
sories.
like the A500F", it uses the 16-wt
Motorola 68000 processor and 8-bit
stereo sound. It is sold with one
megabyte of memory, an internal
3. Sin floppy disk drive and uses
Workbench 2,04,
Head of Commodore Germany,
Helmut Just, said the A600 could be
described as the world's most power-
ful colour portable computer. He said
It plugs straight Into TV sets, which
can be found in most homes and
hotels.
In Germany, prices are DM900
{about £315) for the basic AfjOO and
DM1,200 (about £421) with a 20Mb
WWiuIrr, at t.rrrir fr I, , ,.'■ LHMJf
hard drive. The A500F also costs
DM900.
There are no confirmed details of
UK availability, although trade news-
paper Ctafipnter Trade Weekly recently
predicted it could go on sale in
Britain sometime between Easter and
June for £399.
Gould confirms new machines
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ONLY days after the A600 was unveiled in Germany, Commodore's pres-
ident Irving Gould con finned to Amiga Computing that new Amiga* arc
on the way.
Asked about the A40QO and another planned machine expected to
he pitched between the A2000 and A .1000 he said; "We plan to
maintain our rote as an innovator, with new product introductions in
the future."
Gould dismissed rumours that the giant intend to switch to faster
chips for entry-level Amigas, He likened running an AS00 from a 68020
or 68030 procaa OT to people owning Ferraris and driving them in a ten
miles per hour speed zone.
But he said: "As prices of Motorola chips come down - and In
this industry prices never go up, they always come down - you will see
new products coming from Commodore making use of these
processors."
C
Swifter
service
CITIZEN'S Swift 9 printer has
been given a massive vote of con-
fidence with an order from the
French postal Service, La Paste, for
machines to be used at 4,000 rural
post offices.
The dot matrix models will he
specially adapted tor the role and
will allow La Poste to print cus-
tomer receipts, standard post
office forms and accounting docu-
ments with up-to-the-minute
technology.
Amiga CaiBfWflaf Mat I
Hews
Police Amiga
wins award
\\ \MH, Aliased system used I"* train
|.. ,in e procedures u,r controlling
crowd; .ti football grounds Ison the
wanted lis" to police forces across
Europe after it picked up u tup teih-
ii-' i ■ ■ l.'. ■■ award
\ Strain KMliln-ti 1 1 if 1991
Application Award fen the most inno-
vative and cost effective application
til training technology,
Working with the National
t omputing Centre, the Scottish Polto
College developed Vtstoaiu foltowing
toe Hillsborough disaster where 95
'.mi died.
"Providing classroom simulations
ni large « ale events such m crowd
disturbances has always been adapt-
ing task for trainers," said fohn Eary,
manager ol training products and »r«
vkes .ii N< I
"By developing programs using the
tmigal Islon multimedia authoring
language on the < Ommodore Amiga,
we produced an innovative solution
at a fraction »i the price of an} other
|'( platform."
Commodore
go East
si ( CESS in Eastern Europe has ltd to
t ommodore deciding to open new
offices in several countries.
Speaking in Germany, company
"Recently we opened mir first repn
lentative office in Warsaw, Poland
"This is the beginning of a series oJ
intensive activities in Eastern Europe,
Other offices will be opened In the
( ommonwealth of Independent
States, Hungarj and! KchoslovaWa.
He added that the firm's < M ;i«id
toe professional * ompttter applical km
sector ii experiendng slgnlflcani
demand In thai part ol the worbl
VTil
Video for Plus
FOLLOWING the success of their
video training programme tor the
A50O, New Image Videos have now
released a version for the UOOP.
A three hour tutorial, it IssnppMed
wtth an taiga [argon dictionary and
anti-virus disk tor £24-99. For mote
information write to New image
Videos, 10 Grange Avenoe,
Scarborough Y0124AA,
CDTV push at CeBit
CDTV featured heavily in the Commodore corner a I this
year's CeBll exhibition, with a new system called Amiga
CDTV' being unveiled.
It includes a GflfV player, remote keyboard, floppy disk
drive, mouse and Amiga OS and manual,
All the peripherals are housed in a black casing to blend
in with the player and the bundle costs about DM2300. A
monitor can be bought lor an additional DM550.
Poor sales since the player's Launch were defended by
management- They said that Commodore had been pio-
neers in the CD market and that many people still didn't
understand the technology.
iMmul JoH said that during the initial sales period
lessons were learned and he was confident the machine
would succeed.
Irving Gould was sure that CDIV will not become a non-
standard system such m Beta video recorders,
"Dent contuse the CD-ROW industry as a VI IS/ Beta. If
yon go batk to Beta or VHS you have to remember that was
a machine to do one thing, and that was to show movies on
a tape," he said.
"With CD-ROM technology, In my opinion, there will
never be such a thing as a standard. There is room for many
manufacturers and I'm predicting that you will see several
different manufacturers whose machines will not be com-
patible - they will be on the audio side.
"But there is no need for a standard because the machine
is only as good as the software, People will buy a particular
machine or a particular brand of machine because of the
software that is available that will do a job for them/'
I k [(included: "A CDTV, or computer for that matter, is
only a doorstop - all fOU can do is use it to keep the door
open, without a good program. Our product only sells
because of the software, whether we like it or not."
I or owners of ASOO/Fs wanting to use CDTV software,
HK new CD-ROM drive was on display. Now called the
A570, the company predict that 50,000 drives will be sold
In Germany before the end of the year.
Sales will be restricted by a production limit and interna-
tional demand. There has still not been an announcement
on a UK release date.
i-mifilcu \ "' i i'i i fun * fvr CDTV
Third ceitfre formed
Till -Amiga's multimedia role has been strengthened with a third specialist cen-
tre being formed at a computer graphics and audio-visual equipment supplier.
Reflex will be adding the A2000 and A30Q0. along with the Personal Video
Producer bundle, to their range.
"Reflex is a value added retailer. Multimedia is lailor-made for any \t& and
the Amiga is a bespoke solution/ said Reflex boss John Weatberhead.
-I'm happier selling the Amiga than I'd be selling against it," he said,
Commodore's multimedia sales director Barry Thurston said: "By combining
the Amiga with Reflex's extensive range of computer graphics and AV equip-
ment, sophisticated presentations on any scale or budget are made simple''
Reflex are based in Reading, Berkshire and can be telephoned on 0734
313611
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A SECOND television pro-
gramme devoted to young com-
putet and video games players is
scheduled tor in channels cm
the run up to < hrisbnas.
Prod need by Yorkshire
television, the as yet unnamed
programme will he presented b>
Andy ( ranc and aimed primar-
ily at children aged between 12-
and 16-years-old
the 25-minute programme
has been given a broadcast slot
of S.I spin on Thursdays and
will coverall formats.
The existing Channel -t games
television show, Gwnesmaster,
whkh started at the beginning
of January, Is now achieving an
audience of more than three
million.
Storing more
HIGH density floppy disk drives are
soon to become available for the
AMHH), Commodore's multimedia
division have confirmed. Up to
1 ,44Mb of information can be stored
on suitable disks.
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*
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When you* do not want these features,
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The PCS80B, the only drive to
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viruses, is Only avaiiable direct from
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We have noticed how pricey unintell-
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Raid raises demo trouble
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DEMO disks were confiscated during a raid on a public
domain library by trading standards officers recently, and
Amis* libraries could soon be forced to remove similar pro-
grams from their catalogues.
it is alleged that many of the 39 Atari ST disks taken from
South West Software Library breach copyright. Most feature
movies or music from top groups.
Two policemen and a federation Against Software Then.
(FASTI investigator supervised three men From Dorset
Trading Standards Department during the swoop on W Si s
Poole office. , . .
Shocked library proprietor Martyn Dryden claimed.
"Rumours coming back to me surest that this was a FAST
raid - this It totally erroneous. They were simply there in an
advisory role. iiUta
-If it ends up that we can't distribute demos we could he
forced to close." ,„ . . .
Said FAST investigator John Lowder: The BH [British
Phonographic Industry! watchdog for music copyright have
been to touch with FAST.
"There has already been a meeting to discuss music
demos and any copyright implications," he said. Lowder
could not comment on the SWSL case.
' The BPI are now looking at the whole demo situation.
■\nli-piracv- coordinator Tim Dftfato told Amiga CrMipuiwrff
-We can't' make any distinction between this and any other
piracy medium.
-The fact that it's on floppy disk Is irrelevant - reproduc-
ing copyrighted material without permission is an offence.
We are now comparing I'D disks with the original work in
order to establish whether it's the same recording.
"Under the Act either civil or criminal proceedings could
be taken, although the best way to handle it would be to
educate people that they are committing an offence.
Dorset Trading Standards Department were unavailable
for comment.
Some grey
wards
GREY-imported copies of Dl#t» lntei
mal'S Wordworth wordprocessnr are
■j packages to be sold in
Britain by ruXWOproved resellers at
rery vet) low pices".
I be company have reacted to i Iw
move by refusing to grw technical sup-
. ir offer upgrades to future versions
to owners of the outdated software.
Said Digita boss Jeremy Rihll: "As the
author and sole worldwide publisher of
Wurdworth, Digita recommend that cus-
tomers check with their supplier that
they are buying the genuine UK version,
"To fully support the trade, all luture
packaging is to be clearly marked, for
example 'Export only, not for resale in
th*f UK".
(■or information on where to find
your iKWWl HLgita dealer telephone
0395 270273.
Splitting transfer
i ,. wliu transfer large Files, such as
I hi.! i ires, from Amigas to other types of
computer will benefit front a tool just
added to ASDG's lOlO 1 60S 273 6585)
Art Department Professional
Version 2. 1.0 of package has a new
SPLT feature to enable flies which tan
not be copied onto a single floppy disk
to be split into manageable chunks and
then put back together in their pruper
order.
Programs to run under AmigaDOS,
MSkDOS and Microsoft Windows arc
supplied with ADFto. The utility will be
sent free to registered users of ADPrn 2
and owners of earlier versions can
upgrade for a small charge.
In the UK contact Silica Systems on
081-.1O9 1UI.
QviekWrite writing better
WORDTOOCESSOlt QuickWrite has been poHshed up to make it easier to
llw American software home Ne* Hotfoot* have msi .niwmnced
,1, lm,,l* can be saved Mkd) - *** W«* » »*S
■ he Z 01 WO* tost thruuxh rrdshap, and «. ««"*££
„«„ to set up tHe deauli working envhowrmtl and *« H tor mum
"u aiso nm fcttows Workbench Z's 30 took, whkh NwHtfartiq
Inert. Macro end Utexx entefctneiits Increase control o**r mumal
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More CDTV at wans
IIIUH Street gfert DtafflS have given CDTV a boost with ■ derision to sell the
*W£5* I— is increasing the number of owlets string the
machine from 36 to 100 because of heightened consumer demand.
The manufacturer claim that the Christmas advertising campa.gn lor CDTV
'increased dramatically" awareness and demand for the product
Cwht an unconfirmed report suggests that CDTVs ,re now bong «tf
JnS torn Workbench Z.04. Commodore spokesman Andrew Ball den.d the
rumour.
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Workbench
improves again
Tilt WORKBENCH operating system
b» been improved further, as v2.04
upgrades finally become available for
owners of older Amigas.
Some developers already have
WH2.1, a software upgrade with new
features and improvements. They
Include the ability to read., write and
format PC disks.
Requiring the F-ubanced Chip Set,
U also has sound improvements and
better system configuration. But it
could be next year before WB2.1 is
Included with new machines,
There will be no change this year
on retail products," claimed
Commodores Andrew Bad.
The Amiga operating system, as
we all know, is an evolving creature
which we are always improving fof
our users, it's impossible to say how
long It will take to bug check and
cleanup."
Commodore have just started sell-
ing upgrade kits to v2.G4 through
Silica Systems CQ81-3Q*! 1111).
Included in the packs are the
Kickstart 1 ROM, manuals and
Workbench 2, fonts and extras disks.
Price: £79.95. Super tat Agnus and
Super Denise chips can be bought as
extras.
Better
backgrounds
FONTS, borders and backgrounds for
use with Deluxe Paint are the special-
ity of a new firm called MS (mages.
" All disks cost between £2.50 and
£4.50. For more information write
with an sae to MS Images, M Aveiil
Road, Leicester LC5 2DB.
I OUT
NewsE
Star replacement
HOME computer users are among those being, targeted for
Star MicrofUcs' latest 24-pin black-and-white dot matrix
printer, the LCZ4-20,
A replacement for the LC24-10, the new model has len
letter-quality fonts including italics, and prints at up to
211) characters per second in high speed draft and 64cps in
k-tttdr-ciualiiry mode.
An LCD panel Is intended to make the setup easier, and
Auto Emulation Change can automatically sense and select
either of the resident industry-standard emulations from
the computer control codes sent, The LC24-10 also has a
l'ik buffer which is expandable up to 48k and the capabil-
ity for original plus two copies printi o&
Said Star's saies director Roger Bayleyr " I expect that the
LC24-20 will gain rapid popularity, when our customers
Had talking about the new features normally found only
on the expensive models available today."
Recommended price is £304.33,
Unuil ul hi>mr men h Slur's Intent, the LC24-10
ImffAJ Ifiku tnniriii iillh Vh £fj Jjiraff\ nriA Ktifrnrt
Total control
SWITCHSOFT (0325 482454) have announced
the availability of an Input/Output Port for
controlling robots, electrical motors, sensors
and mains appliances through an Amiga,
It plugs into the computer's printer and
joystick ports and gives eight outputs and
up to 13 digital Inputs. The port can be
programmed using most Amiga languages
Including Basic,
Aquarian
grab DKB
AQUARIAN Public Domain
(0703 685006) have been
appointed the official UK dis-
tributors for DKK's range of
products.
Among them is a 2632 hoard
which plugs into the unused
expansion slot on Commodore's
A2630 68030 accelerator to
enable up to 1 12 megabytes of
32 -bit memory to be added.
Supplied with four megabytes
of memory, It costs £650.
Citizen take driving seat
A PRINTER driver disk i\ l<> he released tnr the Amiga by Citizen Printers
within the next few weeks.
( ailed ( iii/i'M I'riMi Manager the new driver is intended to improve
printing result*, and give greater capabilities to users oi Amigas and any
ol the firm's printers.
Ucnetilv are said to include improved print quality and removal ol
handing, Image smoothing, easier use, Image scaling \n width and
lleiglll, and colour and ^amma correction lo ensure seret'ii images are
exactly reproduced.
Based on the Irseesofl turbo Print Professional software package
it will cost £14.10, although it will h* offered free between April
and |une,
"Citizen Print Manager offers t-nd users a real breakthrough when
printing with Amiga and ( iii/cn machines, especially when using the
colour option," uimmented ( iti/en's Julie I la swell,
lo obtain ihe lue disk call the freephone number c'ikiki 444276.
Scrolling scripts
SMOOTH Talker is a new teleprompting program for produc-
ing a fulhscreen prompting display which can be scrolled ver-
tically using remote control at various speeds.
Displayed on black or white backgrounds, text can lie in
any normal Amiga font at up to 50 point. Individual lines of
text can be highlighted at cue markers inserted.
Users can Import test from wordprocessors in Ascii format,
or text written using the software's built-in editing features.
Scripts may be exported, in Ascii, savEd in ars internal format
with font and mark-up Information, or printed.
Supplied with the remote control, Smooth Talker is avaii-
Ifete lor .£.141 from Zf-N Computer Services (0*1-793 1931).
Shaw for
Frankfurt
THK Amiga show calendar has been
given a new event In Frankfurt,
Germany. World of Commodore *92
will support all Commodore
machines and the manufacturer
will exhibit. Organiser iairs and
Fun (010 4? »106 342383 are expect
nig 200 firms and more than
100,000 enrhiisiasts. to attend.
Dialling tor
Dyspell?
AMIGA users wanting lo get hold of
Sally Systems' dyslexia software,
Dyspell, (see Newsline March 1992)
should telephone Max l.ipman on
0628 24626. Supplied on IS disks.
Ihe package costs £411-25.
Support for
Olympic bid
COMMODORE have Joined forces
with car manufacturer Mercedes
Hen? and German airline Lufthansa
to promote the city of Berlin's bid
to host the Olympic Games in the
year 2CKH). The venue for the games
will be chosen in September next
year.
Simulator
stays
I IT.dROMCS giant Philips are to
continue bundling flight simulation
software with their stereo Colour
monitor.
Microproses F- 19 Stealth
Fighter package will he included
with the Philips CM8833/II until
summer.
And the manufacturer have
warned buyers that grey imported
models do not have the free soft-
ware and are sold with a European
power lead.
Hoses should he marked with
BEAB 115415 safely standard
approval stickers, they say,
Recommend price: £229,99.
Smtmth talker iu« any Atntfn far wrolttttg nrtpt.\
Amiga CempvfirtQ May 1 992
News
More memory
tor Plus
FRONTIER Software (0423 S67140) are Art latest company
to release memory expansion for the A500P.
X TRA-RAM A50Q* fits into the trapdoor underneath the
computer to give the machine up to two megabytes of
memory, , . . ,,
Unpopulated, the board costs £15.99. W.th half a
megabyte the price is C34.99 and for £49,99 a one
megabyte version can be bought.
Sales grew worldwide
MORE than three million Amigas have now been sold worldwide and the sales
Frontier rttrtt-if wi"' Amijtt Htrmary
trend is still pointing up. Commodore claim.
I per cent increase in sales during the last three
JL7lA»i P»«* ** *« tm —h Amiga wii, he sold by the
end of the yep r.
Dial for playing power
A SERIES of 15 telephone numbers have been set up for games players with
healthy bank balances, aimed at giving news, tips and reviews.
Sd Games Power, lines are available for most popula, : tone computer
and consoles including the Amiga, An index of services can be dialled on 0891
^Calb are charged at normal premium rates of 36 pence a minute during
cheap rates and 48 pence at all other limes.
Night Hying
for A320
A320 Airbus pilots are to be
able to buy the first accessory
disk fpr the flight simulation
package within the next few
weeks-
Thalion have announced
that it will give the ability for
proper night time flying and
enable users to practice tech-
nique! such as airport approach
and landings. The disk will cost
£14.95,
UK grows tor
CompuServe
COMPUSERVE, the giant communi-
cations service, now has more than
11,000 members in Britain, making
the company the UK's leading sup-
plier of online information.
It has more than 1,500 databases
which include news, electronic mail.
educational and reference informa-
tion, computer support, shopping
and entertainment information.
"We have enloyed tremendous
growth since entering the UK mar-
ket.," enthused CompuServe's Andrew
Gray.
"We took measures to ensure the
service was available at reasonable
rates to users across the UK, and to
develop, resources to provide
CompuServe's excellent standards of
customer service."
CompuServe can be called on 0272
255111.
Memory power
SEVERAL new Amiga memory
expansion boards have been
added to Power Computing's
growing range of products.
Upgrades are available with
between 512k and eight
megabytes of extra memory in a
variety of formats.
Amiga users can buy a 16-chip
51Zk upgrade with battery-backed
clock tor £24, while for memory-
hungry users an eight megabyte
expansion with fast RAM and a
thru-port to connect to hard
drives costs £299,
For full details call Power
Computing on 0234 843381i,
Pawn- i:*mputiHg nrinu.w mmiorf
i - i l»iiniiini fin ut( nrrdi
Another plant
for Germany
ANOTHER Commodore production
and logistics centre is to be built in
Braunsweig, Germany. Company
president Irving Gould said the plant
should be opened by the end of Btfs
war,
Drive with Canon
OWNERS of Oinon laser and bubblejet printers including the popular Bj-iOe can
now net hold of the latest Amiga drivers free from Canon.
Modern users can download them from a special bulletin board by dr hng
081-669 4586 or by sending a blank disk to Canon ft Canon House, Manor
Koad, Wallington SM6 OAj.
Do you know something we don't?
Although Amis* Computing has scores of contacts in the ^ w «|£
we need you. If p» have some hot news ring John Butters on the news
desk now on 0625 6788*8 or fax to 0625 879966* All information sup^
piled will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
DIARY DATES
12 to 14 April 1992
European Computer Trade Show
Organiser: Bienheim Online
{081-742 2838)
Vtmu: Business Design Ctnttt,
tjondon
A trade-only show where many of
the year's releases can be pre-
viewed.
IX to 3 1 May 1992
Spring Computer Stopper Show
Organiser Blenheim PEL
(081-742 2828}
Venue Olympic, London
An area called Amiga Shopping
Centre will be devoted to the
machine,
10 to 12 July 1992
6(Jt International l&bit
Computer Show
(081-5493444)
Verne: Wembley Exhibition HaUs,
London
The second show of the year, for
an event that's getting more ami
more support from the industry.
6 to 8 September 1992
European Computer Trade Show
Autumn
Business Design Centre
Royal AgrkuthtMl Hall,. London
A new trade-only event for the
computer leisure industry.
OVERSEAS
28 to 11 May 1992
Consumer Electronics Show
Organiser: EJG/CBG
Venue: Chicap
The show opens for the first time
for the public on May 30, 1992,
S to 11 October 1992
Amiga Koln
Organiser AM! Shows Europe
(01049809224086)
Venue: Koln M&se
A chance to catch up on the year's
developments in the active Amiga
world.
26 to 29 November 1992
Woffl of Commodore '92
Organiser: Fain & Fun
iOW 49 8 106 34094)
Venue: Frankfort Exhibition Halls
The main Commodore show in
Germany - 100,000 visitors
expected.
• If your company is OTginiswi *
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linU'd, let ui tnnw so we can include
the intomattmi in the diary.
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USA NewsE
he Spring AmiExpo was held on February 14 to 16, or board the Queen
Mary, which is now permanently berthed in Long Beach, California
Tht show exhibition hall was actually the stripped-out engine room of
the grand old ship, which is now owned by Disney and serves as a hotel and
tourist attraction. It was a great setting for an Amiga show, allowing Amigans to
lake 3 break from the action by walking over to see Howard Hughes' giant
Spruce Goose, the largest aeroplane ever built, instead of Just sitting in a hotel
basement as is usual at such events.
Unfortunately, Southern California's first real rainstorm in years put a damper
on the show, While some regions did experience flooding due to poor drainage,
the weather wasn't actually that severe.
Still, El seems many California Amigans either feared the wet roads or were
afraid they would melt in the rain, so the show actually had its biggest atten-
dance on the last day, when the sky cleared.
This was a sort of upgrade'' AmIExpo. While there were very few new prod-
ucts in evidence, it seemed almost every booth was selling a new version of an
older program.
Innovations at
Inovatronics
Inovatronlcs wowed the crowd with their
HiQ A500 Tower, which they will be dis-
tributing in the US for CheckMate. With
three Zorrq II slots, a video slot, and an
A20OO-sty1e accelerator slot, this tower
looks like it will be very popular at
US$699,95, especially considering thai
you can buy the HiQ and a new ASOO for
less than a new Amiga 2000 sells for over
here.
The company also showed upgrades
to their popular Directory Opus and
CanDo products. Opus 3,41 fixes a num-
ber of bugs, acids support for AmigaDOS
2.0 functions such as Applcons, custom
fonts, and ECS screen resolutions.
It also lets you view IFF images
crunched with PowerPacker. CanDo 1.6
features gameport support, so you can
use it for creating games (although not
fast action games); proportional sliders in
CanPcn:reated windows; a better online
help facility; and support for reading and
writing binary files.
Inovatronics products are available
from CheckMate Digital in London,
Rafting the
PageStream
SoftLogik were showing off their new
HotLinks Edition add-on package for
PageStream. HotLinks allows programs lo
share data files - if you update the data
file using one program, the changes will
occur in the other as well.
HotLinks Edition includes the HotLinks
system software that allows interprocess
file sharing; PageLiner, a lest editor
designed specifically for use with
PageStream; and BME, a bitmap editor
New Virtual Realities
Virtual Reality Laboratories Inc were debuting their new update of Vista Pro at
the show, VistaPro 2,0 will now directly render to the DCTV, HAM E, and
Firecracker 24 graphics cards. You're no longer limited lo rendering random
landscapes and VRU s DEM geography files - you can load an IFF picture and
convert it into a landscape.
Landscapes can now be cropped, and a new bounding box feature lets you
render only visible portions of the landscape, which can reduce your rendering
lime considerably. Unless you have an accelerated Amiga, though, you should
probably still plan lo do your renderings
overnight.
Other ne* features, such as a wireframe
preview mode, let you get your picture set
up just right before committing yourself to
a long rendering session. Your final picture
can be enhanced with four different kinds
of detailed trees and new shaduw effects.
Best of all, this much -enhanced program
now has a new, lower retail price of only
US$99.95, a reduction of a third.
Why would you want a terrain render-
ing program? Ask Arthur C Clarke - he's
using VistaPro on his Amiga to create ren-
derings for his new hook on terraforming
the Red Planet, entitled The irrowi of
Ml. Oiympm: A Garden err Man. "«}"< W* «* ™P »' v <>
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What's
Mew
USA
by Denny Atkin
that will load standard and 24 -bit IFFs
and allow you to crop and touch up a
grey-scale representation of the picture,
while maintaining all the 24-bit colour
data.
SoftLogik announced that they've
made the HotLinks specification available
to other developers, so they'll be able to
add HotLinks support to their applica-
tions. SoftLogik reps said that they'd be
turning their attention to finishing up Art
Expression, their professional-quality
structured-drawing program, as soon as
they ship HotLinks Edition.
Of interest to both PageSiream and
ProPage users was Computer Safari's
booth, showing some absolutely fantastic
PageStream and PostScript Type 1 fonts,
If you're looking for out-of-tbe-ordinary
typefaces. Computer Safari is the com-
pany to contact.
Their Disk #26 contains four different
Star Trek fonts, covering the original
series titles, the movie titles, and the Next
Generation typefaces, Disk #22 has hiero-
glyphics and a Klingon font, while Disk
#24 has more conventional (but still
fancy) typefaces like Wedding Text and
Surt Side. Computer Salari can be reached
at 353 W. Main St., Suite K, Woodland,
CA 95695 USA; phone/fax number (91 6)
666-1813,
Gold Disk
magic
Cold Disfc showed Professional Page 3,0
to an enthusiastic crowd, but the product
wasn't finished in time lo ship at the
show (it did finally ship in the US on
March 9). The product has a magical
new addition that makes it considerably
more powerful - Genies,
Actually a set of sophisticated ARexx
macros, the Cenies can automate the cre-
ation of sophisticated page designs, The
30 sample Genies add functions such as
automatic envelope addressing, mail
merge, and grid creation. If you're
ARexx-literale, you can use over 300
ARexx commands to create your own
Genies for custom page layouts or linking
lo other ARexx-sawy program.
ProPage JO adds Undo, a much-
needed feature; five new Compugraphic
outline fonts; a hot-link to the upcoming
Professional Draw 3.0; support for con-
verting PostScript Type 1 fonts into
Compugraphic outline format; and new
import filters for ProWrite,. excellence!
and QuickWrite,
Demonstrated along wilh ProPage 3.0
was Metadigm's MetaScan. This software
for the Epson E5-300C 24-bit flatbed
scanner will scan directly into Professional
Page, ImageMaster and other ARexi-
capable programs too.
it will also display directly onto v^riouj j
24-bit graphic adaptors as it scans. Tha
software was very speedy, and looks it
set a new standard for Amiga scanning
software- Meladigm can be reached M
(714)253-2828,
CSA s speed I
demons
CSA, the original manufacturer of Amiga j
accelerators, were showing a number |
new products. The Rocket Launcher t$
1699 board that doubles the speed d
Commodores 2SMHz A2630 acceteraia
board by adding a 50MH? 68030 «nd
68882 to the combination.
The 38 Special is an upgraded very*
of CSA's popular Mega-Midget Race*
This 38 MHz 68030 board for the Armgj
500, 1SO0, and 2000 computers include* |
4 or 8Mb of 32 -bit dynamic RAM md
support for 51 2k to 2Mb of ultra-fa
static RAM. It allows yew to switch b*c«
lo the S&000 for compatibility purpose*
The board starts at SI, 250, so it's oniv *
the dedicated speed nuL
If you absolutely must have the la
Amiga on the block - or in your city,
that matter - you'll love the CSA 40*
Magnum board, unveiled publicly at t
show. This pricey [$3,995) board for tl
Amiga 1500 and 2000 contains a 251*1
68040, 1Mb of ultra-fast static RAM,
4Mb of 32-bit dynamic RAM. The 40*
can be upgraded to 64Mb of dynarti
RAM.
It also includes a parallel port. n«*
serial ports (one is RS422, so it'll supec*
the AppleTalk network with extra v
ware), an expansion bus for RAM <
64Mb, and an ultra-fast SCSI contra**.
Contact CSA 7564 Trade St, San Dm
CA 92121 USA; phone (619) 566-391
fax (619) 566-0581; or, tor the 6W
based products only, Omega Pre
England on 0925 763946.
£M Amiga Computing May )992
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Furlhermore.you'll be pleasantly surprised
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3
r 7^Hardware
. erhaps the biggest Amiga suc-
cess story has been the well
documented 24-bit invasion,
To be honest this is only the tip of the
Iceberg and has occurred almost
entirely because of the catalyst of
acceleration which the ever-growing
band of 030 and 040 boards have
brought with them.
Without acceleration, the Amiga's
I donni nation in the virtual world and
expert! ie as a multimedia workstation
would never have happened. Now,
thanks to plug-In acceleration, a stan-
dard machine can be transformed from
an impressive multitasking workhorse
intg a fire-breathing powerhouse run-
ning between 20 and 10 times faster
I than in its standard form.
Now, ray tracing and other proces-
sor-hungry applications have been
transformed from overnight endurance
trials into artistic flights of fancy which
appear in moments as opposed to
hours - or even days.
Obviously speed isn't the only ele-
ment in the multitasking equation, as
extra RAM becomes equally important
when you need to apply several pro
grams simultaneously. Here again we
plan to clear up a few myths surround
ing the merits of both 16 and 12-bit
memory - hopefully guiding you to the
perfect choice for your particular
Amiga-based exploits.
The 24-bit buyers' guide
DCTV
It you glance down the price list of avail-
able graphics systems, DCTV stands out
alongside AVideo as far and away the
cheapest option on offer. However, it's
worth remembering that at present
there's a small sacrifice to be made far the
impressive cash saving - that of output.
Unlike all the other systems, DCW does
not supply an RGB output. At the
moment it offers a purely composite sig-
nal - although there are strong rumours
that an RGB option is soon to be added.
RGB or composite, that is the question,
but what is the difference? Well, in short it
is clarity. With RGB you see the image in
its purest form - basically all the colour
data appears onscreen and, to use an
acronym Irom the world of wordpnxess-
ing, it's a Wysiwyg (what you see is what
you get) display. In the case of DCTV
you're forced into the compromise of
composite. As a result, the original RGB
output is converted into a lower quality
composite display. Although this may
sound dramatic, it's not as bad as it
sounds. For example, rf you want to pro-
duce art or animation which in its final
form is to appear on video, DCTV is' ideal.
Because VHS video worta entirely with
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input signal is ideal. The big bonus for
)TV fans is that with the system you
always know exactly what your art is
going to look tike. As a result, any bleed-
fig or excessive saturation can be spotted
**• belore committing your creations lo
tape
This attribute of DCTV's output is, if
anything, a bonus rather than a restriction,
r. the conversion from RGB to composite
- which has to take place with any VHS
wjeo production - can throw up some
*«y nasty results if the colours within the
KB signal exceed 191, or around 12 in
th* Amiga's colour palette.
Added attractions
Aside from the price, DCTV also boasts
wme impressive added attractions. At the
forefront of these is the built-in frame
grabber which allows you to capture
images from video and import them
directly into the paint package. The impor-
tance of this option can't be stressed
enough as it adds a huge amount of
potential to your art.
The final bonus concerns the system's
Option to save its creations as standard 24-
btt files. As I mentioned earlier the com-
posite display can't show RGB in all ill
glory, but the system still gives you a good
■dea as to how its RGB alternative would
actually appear.
Perhaps the easiest way to describe the-
difference between a DCTV and an RGB
image is to equate it to the display quality
between a monitor and a TV, The ideal
application for DCTV is perhaps self
explanatory. As an intrD level '-'ideographic
system, DCTV is almost impossible to beat.
With perfect composite output, built-in
frame grabbing and the option to store its
images in its own display format occupy-
ing only around 50k as opposed to the
500k that the same RGB image would
require, it's ideal, and perhaps the perfect
vehicle for budget 24-bit animation.
Having moaned about the lack of RGB,
it's perhaps worth mentioning that even
with the constraints of composite, DCTV
still manages a palette of between four
and eight million colours - impressive fig-
ures, especially if you need to keep a close
eye on your finances.
Image quali
Flexibility
Software support
Value for money
Overall
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AVideo preview
Thfe is the latest board on the markel
and comes in either 12- or 24-bit for-
mat, retailing at an amazingly cheap
£599 for the 24-bit variant and an
equally impressive £249 for its 12-bll
counterpart. We haven't tested the
board fully, as the one sent for review
was a demo, which was returned due
to our policy of not reviewing anything
but finished products.
Nevertheless, we can still bring you
the relevant bullet points in way of a
warm up for the no holes barred, bare
bones, two-page special in the nexi
issue of AC.
As far as features go, the new board
appears to be well blessed wit
24-bit display, 768 x 580 video spec res
olution, a double 12-bit 4,096 buffer
plus the option to overlay Amiga graph-
ics and animation. As if that wasn't
enough, fit aiso fully genlockable and
claims to run on a standard 1Mb
machine, although in reality an accelera-
tor is a necessity rather than a luxury.
Aside from its internal features, per-
haps the biggest attraction has to be the
inclusion of TVPainl 1.5, the software
package that's widely regarded as the
premier 24-bit paint program.
As I mentioned earlier, the board has
not yet had a thorough test so I don't
want to speculate too much about its
particular features. Nevertheless, if the
bullets are an accuracy guide it appears
that the AVideo option could be the per
feet product lor the general 24- bit user
on a budget.
Tune in to the |une issue for the next
thrilling instalment of the AVideo story...
of a monster
CVP's IV24
The IV24 made without doubt the
biggest marketing splash last year. The
board hit the streets in a blaze of glory
with a collection of bundled software
which includes Caligari, icala and
MacroPaint. On top of the additional
goodies come built-in entras such as pic-
ture-in-picture or PIP, on -board frame
grabbing, in line flicker fixing and full
broadcast spec display.
Sounds great, doesn't it, but I'm afraid
it's not quite as big a bargain as it first
appears. The first let-down concerns the
bundled software. Both Caligari and Scala
have been seriously restricted in relation
to their original! forms and in all honesty
don't deserve the same titles as their stan-
dalone ancestors.
MacroPaint, on the other hand, is
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indeed all that its. forerunner ever wai
and perhaps even more. Unfortunately
this Hill only mates it a very mediocre
package in relation to other 24-bit paint
programs.
Havmg said that, the problems
related to MacroPaint are likely to be the
result of the hoard's unusual method of
updating its display rather than a fault
within the software itself. Unlike other
systems, the IV24 doesn't send its out-
put direct to the screen; instead all data
is first sent to the flicker fixer in a series
of separate blocks.. On arrival the data it
processed by a built-in library into the
necessary format fax the screen.
As you can imagine, this can be a
lengthy process and causes a very
Perhaps the biggest compliment that we
could pay to the Harlequin is that it was the
first serious 24-bit board available on the
machine and has remained the benchmark
by which all subsequent 24-bit releases have
been judged,
ft wouldn't be unreasonable to say that
the Harlequin, along with the soon to be
released 32-bit Imago board from G2, is
firmly aimed at the professional graphic artist
who sees quality as his or her prime concern.
The image quality and resolution of the
board still remain unrivalled, this in itseff is
an impressive testament.
When you combine image quality, unri-
valled resolution, 32-bit architecture and Efte
optional Alpha channel which can be used
to produce seamless transitions between
video- and computer-generated images, plus
additional special effects, the Harlequin is by
any standards an impressive product.
To add the finishing touches, the
Harlequin benefits from the very latest ver-
noticeable delay during screen update.
Apparently this limitation is unavoidable
due to the architecture of the board - as
a result, its appeal to freehand artists has
to be badly affected.
The final cause for concern is the
application of some of the board's more
exotic features, such as pip and internal
frame grabbing, Unfortunately, both of
these features need an RGB input signal
to operate - not an easy thing to obtain
from a standard VCR.
As a result, anyone with a VCR or cam-
corder which doesn't support RGB would
needs an external RGE -to-composite con-
verter, Originally this meant extra invest-
ment on behalf of the user but recently
all that has changed thanks to a new and
aggressive marketing ploy on the part of
both Silica Systems and GVP. See this
month's Updates column for lurther
details.
Although the above may appear to be
solid doom and gloom for the board, it's
by no means as redundant as it may
sound, For multimedia applications, even
with the restrictions on screen update, it
still remains one of the most flexible
boards in the business for general 12-
and 24-bit applications.
With the constant release of third-
party support software, it's future as a
potential multimedia workstation may
well become its saving grace. For more
details on TWaint and the IV24, again
take a look at this month's Updates col-
umn.
Image quality
Flexibility
CO
Software support
••••••oooo
Value for money
••••#•0000
Overall
►••OQX)
sion of TVPaint.
Unfortunately The
Amiga Centre Scotland 1
in conjunction with
Tecsoft still insist on retailing
the aforesaid package at a
frightening £ft00 plus VAT.
This is especially infuriating considering
the new AVideg board comes complete with
TVPaint as part of a standard package and
still manages to retail at under £600 for the
complete system.
Aside from the rather inflated price lag of
Imagica VD2001
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In the world of Amiga-based 24-blt art, the VD2Q01 is definitely the old soldier of
the collection. This particular unit was the very first 24-bit board. Although old, it
still boasts very impressive software and additions such as a built-in Irsme grabber.
Although rather «tdedy, it remains a fast and impressive product. Having said that it
does have one major disadvantage.
The problem is simply that of resolution. Even at its best the board cannot supply
a video spec signal, As a result, its useful- ,
ness for video-based art is extremely lim
Ited. However, with an aggressive
marketing campaign by G2 Systems the
board could easily enjoy a new lease of
life.
As a video workstation, it's been super
seded by more recent releases. As a bog
standard 24-bit paint and ray (racing plat-
form, It's only bettered by the likes of
Harlequin and TVPaint. Basically if you're
not interested in video it could well be
worth a closer look, especially if G2
decide to reduce the price of the board
and the associated Imagica paint pack-
arji-
Image quality
•••••#•00
Flexibility
• • •••••GOO
Software support
•••••••QOQ
Value for money
••••••OOOO
Overall
•••••••OCT)
the board's associated
software, it's almost impossible to find fault
with the application and output of the soft-
ware/hardware combination. Nevertheless
this doesn't mean the board is faultless.
what it does it does perfectly, but it's
perhaps what it doesn't do that in the past
has been be its only flaw. Although as a dis-
play platform it's unsurpassed, the lack of a
built-in frame grabber severely affects its
flexibility and effectiveness for general 24-
bit applications,
However, there could be light at the end
of the tunnel in the form of a dedicated
frame grabber which at this very moment is
winging its way to the office, and claims to
wo* perfectly with the board retailing for
around £240.
.As a platform for ray traced and hand-
drawn 24-bit images, it's still easily the best,
As a general purpose utility board fts case
could soon be improved by the release of
the new frame grabber which will be
tested! to the full in the ne*t issue of Ad
Updates column.
For a graphic artist involved in the cre-
ation of high quality static images or single-
frame recorded broadcast TV and video, it's
ideal. If the aforesaid artisan required more
general abilities it might be worth waiting for
our review of the new Imagica board - with
built-in frame grabber - before making a
final decision.
Image quality
Flexibility
Software support
Value for money
•••••••OOO
Overall
••••••••OO
Graphics jargon buster
Compoiite
ACS
Alpha Channel
24-bit board
U-bil board
RGB and sync combined into a single signal
Separate signal for each component colour plus a sync signal
Available on 32-bit boards allowing external software to apply
enhanced video effects such as graduated transitions between video
and computer generated images
Display card capable of showing images made up of over 1 6.7 million
colours
identical maximum image capacity as 24-bil but with an extra eight
bits available for additional software-controlled image enhancement
Amiga Computing May 1992
Hardware
Hard drives
Possibly the biggest problem concerning
upgrading isn't the initial cost of the spe-
cific bits of additional kit, but the associ-
ated odds and ends thai are almost
essential for any serious application of your
new toy.
For example, ray tracing without an
accelerator and a had disk is akin to root
channel work without anaesthetic. All three
go hand in hand, The same applies to
almost every power application. As a result,
a good quality and in some cases a fast
hard drive is essential.
For A50G owners the ideal choke has to
be the ASOQHCM-, It's not the cheapest but
it's certainty the one of the fastest, most
reliable and flexible drives for the A5O0, For
applications such as animation, OTV. DTP
and multimedia, the AS0QHD+ is ideal,
With an access time of 1 1 milliseconds and
a transfer rate of around 1 Mb a second, if s
perfect.
Other benefits include a built-in SCSI
interface, an on-board 64k cache, plus the
The optical
option
At the moment there's only one choice
for anyone looking towards the next
step in mass storage. Power Computing
are the only company retailing an opti-
cal drive in the UK, At first glance the
optical appears a rather pricey option,
but as someone once said, looks can be
deceptive,
With the internal version retailing at
£999 plus another £199 for the con-
troller card, this IBM convert is sure to
put the financial fear of God into even
the most stout-hearted among us. The
same financial terror equally applies to
the optional external version.
Cost effective
Having recovered from the shock of
the initial expense, however, the optical
is easily the most cost-effective system
for the high-end user, If you're into ani-
mation, 24-bit art, serious DTP or in fact
any area in which the Amiga requires an
almost limitless amounts of storage, an
option tor up to 8Mb of extra RAM,
Although you may think s single HD is all
you'll ever need, believe me if things get
serious it will take no time at all to fill a
52Mb drive and eat up your easting RAM
- especially if you're working in any of the
areas listed above.
As a result, the option tor additions via a
SCSI connection and extra RAM on board
could well make the initial added invest-
ment worth it.
Compromise
li you're not quite so dependent on
speed, another drive entitled the Hobbyle
A590 could be the perfect compromise
between speed storage and expense.
Although it too boasts a SCSI interface, it's
limited to a maximum of 2Mb ol RAM
expansion, On the good side it is, on aver-
age, £1 00 cheaper than the CVP A500HD*
and yet still offers a 52Mb Quantum,
The word Quantum is quite literally syn-
onymous with quality, n you have a choice
optical is the perfect choice. The initial
cost is indeed grim but from then on an
extra 1 28 Mb is only £30 away.
Each disk is formatted and initialised
in exactly the same way as any other
l?aWB Rewritable
Optical C*rtri<*B«
Perhaps most important when upgrading any desktop style Amiga with a hard
disk is the card onto which it sits, Like the top of the range A500 drives, the best
hard cards come with the option of a lull complement of 8Mb additional mem
ory plus a built in SCSI interface.
Boards such as the CVP Impart series 2 and the Nexus boasi all ol the above
and take control ol additional SCSI peripherals to the limit by handling up to
seven extra SCSI devices from a single card.
If you re unlikely to go any further than a single drive and (ton'l require extra
RAM on board, perfect choices include the Dalaflyer Irom Hard Cache Ltd and
the IV5 Trumpcard from Diamond. Even with these initially basic cards there s
Ot an option to upgrade later with additional daughter boards and optional
SCSI pass-thru cables,
of drives always go with a Quantum, even
if there's a bit more expense involved.
Other common formats include XT and
Seagate. Although both do the job, the/re
slower and less reliable than the more tech-
nically advance Quantums.
The option of choice is usually limited to
1 500 owners' and above. Nevertheless the
rule is always to check the brand of any
drive before parting with your hard-earned
cash, as it's by far the most important ele-
ment within IheunH.
rf you've made the extra investment and
plumbed for a 1 SO0 or above you'll have
hard disk. Whenever you want to access
another disk simply eject your the cur-
rent one and lumble around in the disk
box for another 128Mb to slide in its
place. The only slight compromise con-
ihc added bonus of Zorro slots. With these
little beauties, expanding your machine's
horizons becomes infinitely easier than lor
those limited to the A500,
Again, the hard card question is a case
of horses for courses. It you're simply look-
ing lor expanded storage, the Zorm-based
hard disk can be infinitely more cost effec-
tive than that of the A500
Cheap hard card and hard drive combi-
nations are many and varied. The only pro-
viso is to think long and hard about your
choice of hard drive,, Quantum again being
me perfect choice given sufficient funds.
cerns the seek or access time of the
drive, A fast hard drive will locate the
necessary data as quickly as 11 millisec-
onds, and Commodore's A590 will man-
age 2Bms.
The optical, however, only manages
60 milliseconds, This may sound a tad
disappointing, but in the optical world
this is about standard rather than a slow
exception To offset the slow access
time, the drive has an exceptionally
good transfer rate which peaks at an
impressive 1,5Mb per second. On big
files this more than makes up for the ini-
tial delay in locating the data.
The only optical alternative is to go
for an even bigger version of the Power
drive. In this case it's a GVP IBM variant
650Mb optical with almost identical
access and transfer rate as its 128Mb
counterpart. These are available from
Silica Systems but it would require a
one-off import from the States, and m a
result could work out to be a very
expensive option.
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Hardware
Accelerators
• terms \y\ value for money and sheer
tfcoice, the user with an eye to speeding
c his of her Amiga has, if you'll forgive
he, never had it so good. The
■rtection of accelerator cards now on
rftef ranges from the sub-£200 ICD
i card to the latest £2,000+
W04Q-based Single Board Computers
> complete with their own hard
ertates, memory, parallel and
xnal ports.
Those charged with the task of cate-
gorising this impressive array of power
add-ons cannot, unfortunately, profess to
hjv* "never had it so good", If anything,
*# )rjh of recommending a single board
» now well-nigh impossible. So we
Mont
Reasoned
This section is aimed at usefs with a
vpecilic purpose in mind and a budget
n which to woit. No definitive "this
• best card of the lot" answer will be
n. Instead, we'll concentrate Dn
-for-money and compatibility with
the sort of aims one might have for such
•n expensive peripheral.
Put simply, the aim or all prospective
upgrade*-* is raw speed, but if you
approach the issue thinking only of per-
centage points and hundredths ol a sec-
ond, you'll either end up spending too
much or will settle for a card which
doesn't meet your requirements.
So what Acquirements are these? The
worst thing that could happen to you is to
discover, after spending £1,500 on a won-
der-widget, that it crashes out every time
you try to use the software package you
bought it in order to enhance. The second
worst thing is to realise that the package in
question doesn't run much faster than
before.
To avoid such disasters, users should
first of ail decide in which area their soft-
ware is most heavily speed-dependant, if
you are using a turbo ray tracing package,
for instance, you'll need a fast maths co-
processor (Floating Point Unit, or FPU) and
enough memory to run at least your
Workbench and ray tracer.. Ray tracers live
and breath mathematics, and the FPU
speed is all-important to them.
This means that a 68030 card with
25MH2 CPU, 25MH* FPU, and 4Mb of 32-
bit RAM would suit your needs better than
a 33MH2 68030 with no FPU. The latter
would be appear to be faster, but the
25MHz FPU would outperform it in most
number-crunching tasks.
Again, with the price of 68030 cards
falling rapidly this year, many users will opt
for one of these rather than spend the
extra hundreds for an 040. The 68040
cards are undoubtedly several rungs higher
on the speed ladder but prices, with the
possible exception of the new Fusion Forty,
tend to follow suiL Why spend hundreds
extra on luxury when utility will suffice?
A second price consideration now
comes into play, however. The 68040 chip
has an FPU built-in, but the 680 30 does
not. When many manufacturers quote you
a low price for their entry- level 68030 card,
you should check whether the price
includes an FPU. If it does not, you could
end up spending a couple of hundred
more to get the best performance from
your ray tracer.
Cheaper
If your most pressing need is to make
ProPage or PageStream work fast enough
to design your magazine on time, you
might find that a combination of one of
the cheaper 68030 cards and a multisync
monitor with flicker fixer will work best.
Tbe money you'd save by going for the
cheaper board would pay lor the monitor
and flicker fixer, and the corresponding
screen refresh improvement is a great help
when working in such a screen-orientated
Wysiwyg environment. Put another way, it
is too easy to see an accelerator as an indi-
vidual unit. They may cost much more
than any other peripheral you'll ever buy,
but they are peripherals all the same and
must coexist with your existing system
and software.
Some users will find that their new
super-last card has almost negligible per-
ceivable impact on the speed of their soft-
ware. In particular, any piece of software
which has never left you yawning while
working on a 66000 system is not the
ideal candidate lor an expensive speed
boost.
That said, if you're into ray tracing, 24-
bil graphics, DTP or animation you'll have
to make the choice at some stage, so let's
take a stroll down the boardwalk,
The CVP series
Great Valley Products {CVP) wen? one of
the earty entrants in the Amiga accelerator
scene and have built a deserved name for
speed and reliability over the past few
years.. Their 25MHi 3001 card is still one of
the most widely used of all boards, despite
being superseded: by 33MH; models and
the new 68 040 cards.
The latest CVP accelerator range
includes the Combo cards, a S0MH2
68030 card, and the new G-Force 68040
board.
The 22MHz Combo card includes in its
£599 retail price a 2SMHz 68882 FPU,
1Mb of 32-bit RAM and an integral 32-bit
SCSI' hard drive controller. The speed
improvements offered by a 22MHz system
might not satisfy the semi-professional, but
for DTP and graphics enthusiasts it should
be sufficient and provides an excellent just-
about-affordable entry-level board, espe-
cially as it negates the need to buy a hard
drive interface.
Remember, however, that the basic
1 Mb RAM included in the £599 price tag is
not enough for most uses, and the card
should be bought with extra memory. A
Amiga Computing May \992
JTlWardware
1Mb CWF-specWc SIMM tor the card will
cost £69, which as you'll notice is quite
expensive.
This is because CVP use fast (60 to
40ns) "burs! mode" SIMMs designed
specifically for their boards. Tne good news
is that the boards have a better perfor-
rnance as a result, and the bad news is that
upgrading a GVP card can. be a very
expensive exercise. The 33MHj Combo,
with its basic 4Mb RAM and !3MHz
68882, is, at £999, probably a better all-
round buy than its more pedestrian little
brother.
G-Force, which has a deceptive entry
price of £1 ,799, * a 6B04O csrd ™ nn ' 11 ^ aL
28MH?. It works only with the A3000
under Kictetart 2-04, but at the moment
enjoys the advantage of being supplied
with free 2.04 upgrade ROMs tor owners
of older A3000S.
The card is certainty fast, and has the
mart ol quality construction you'll find
with every CVP card, but our preliminary
tests showed it was a shade slower than
the Mercury and Fusion Forty boards. To
Computer
Systems
Associates
CSA have been in the market with their
Mega Midget Racet cards for some time
now, and they have a name for reliabil-
ity. The design of the Racer is a standard
"piggy-back" layout which requires the
add to this, the basic specification C-Force
comes with no RAM. is expandable only to
8Mb, and relies on CVPs high quality, but
expensive RAM upgrade SIMMs.
Those fast SIMMs should stand the G-
Force in good stead for 24-bit animation
and so on, but you'll have to wait until
next month's 68040 Supertest to find out
just how well the boards perform in practi-
cal application and over a longer period of
time,
CVP Combo range
\~s
Value for money
••••••••oo
Overall
Amiga lo be opened, its 6*000 levered
out and stuck on the accelerator board
before the whole lot is plugged back
into the CPU socket on the mother-
board.
Mega Midgets are available in a vari-
ety of configurations from low-price
units with only a 6*030 and no RAM or
FPU, up to 50MHz CPU and FPU with
BMb RAM on a RAM card slotting on
the side of the Midget Racer board. The
CVP SOSO
Speed
••i
Compatibility
######»#»
Value for money
####•00000
Overall
•••••••ooo
boards perform well in practice and
after the initial hassle of installation
they hardly ever come to the user's
attention.
As lar as value is concerned, the
Mega Midget Racers are quite close to
Solid State Leisure's A/B50GO cards,
Benchmark tests indicate that there is
little to choose between CSA and SSL
cards with similar configurations,
though I personally would be surprised
CVP C-Force
Speed
#•1
Compatibility
I
w
Value for money
Overall
OOO
#oo
if the CSA boards, with Ihnr compact
surface- mounted design, didn't work
out as more reliable in long term.
The latest CSA accelerator Is one of
the most fully-featured cards available
at the moment.
CSA Midget Racer
Speed
••4
Compatibility
••••••••oo
Value for money
•••••••ooo
Overall
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Magnum 40/4
As this article \i being written, the
first Magnum 40/4 ("forty four )
cards are on their way across the
Atlantic bringing with them a 33MH;
68040, SCSI2 hard drive interface,
FS422 serial port and parallel port,
making them the first ol a new breed
of Single Board Computers (SBCs) to
be released in this country.
At an asking price of SJ,9?5, the
40, 4 Is not for the enthusiast, but the
first two 3 J MHz boards were sold to
the Pentagon and it can't be long
before this sort of top-end technology
starts to push the Amiga into area^ in
which it has never before been used-
Look out for a full review of the 40/4
neat month.
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RCS Fusion
Forty
i »w Our review of the original
Forty card, you'll know just how
w a caning il received at our hands.
>r RCS, the new board is so
h better than the first one we
!«wd that I find it difficult to believe it
>fte same product.
tunning at 28MHz and sporting brand
• ROMs and software, the latest
n Forty works only with Kickstart
* and is very fast indeed. It is also
> stable by several orders of magni-
irte. and popped its dogs only once
**j our test penod - something all the
•** boards did.
According to the AIBB3 benchmarks,
d nowadays by most manufacturers
f testers, the Fusion Forty beat C-
some benchmarks, and the
in others, which is pretty good
» a card which had such an mauspi-
x-us start last year, With its new price
£1,395, Fusion has to be the best buy
speed -hungry 42000 owners, esp€-
ftljr as this price includes 4M)b RAM on
fcotrd.
The one annoying niggle remaining
h Fusion Forty is its hatfed of 16-bit
U RAM, With a RAM expansion card
feed to your A200O, Fusion will refuse
o kick up as it maps its own memory
exactly where the auto-configuring 16-
bit RAM wants to go. The result is thai
you have to disable the RAM card's
auto-configure mode (assuming the
card has a jumper for this - not all of
them do), then use the software sup-
plied with your card to add the memory
after boot up.
This is a fairly silly situation, but as
long as you intend to stick in 040 mode,
the 4Mb on a basic Fusion Forty should
keep you going. On the other hand,
you'll need 8Mb to fully utilise some
software, such as TVPainl, and if you kick
up in 68000 mode, you'll have only the
standard 1Mb to play with unless your
RAM card can be manually configured.
Users and prospective buyers
shouldn't despair, though, as RCS's
software engineers are shipping new
versions of the software to soJve the
problem as we go to press.
Speed
•••••••••
Compatibility
••#••••+00
Value for money
••••••••oo
Overall
•00
► improvement over A20Q0
10 000
AIBB3 Benchmark results
5000
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Fusion Forty
PPS Mercury
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Math
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Beschbafl
Benchmarks
In o straight
race, fusion
and Mercury
ore almou neck
and neck, with
C -force hat( a
length
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Solid State
Leisure
just about the only British company
presently designing and building their own
accelerators, Solid State Leisure offer a
range of competitively priced GB020- and
68030-based systems. The range starts
with the A50G0-16, with a I6MH1 6&020
and 1Mb RAM for less than £300, and
goes all the way up to the B5000-4Q,
including a 40MHz 030 and 4Mb RAM.
The only board in the range to fit in an
A2O00 Zorro slot is the B5000-4Q, the rest
being designed as piggyback units. They
all perform well, and in certain configura-
tions are excellent value for money. Build
quality wasn't as good as most of the other
boards wc reviewed, but the &500O-25 on
test performed reliably enough.
The cards are as easy to fit as any other
piggyback unit, which means not very,
and fitting will invalidate you warranty in
any case, for A50O owners there is little
choice until the card-in-a-bo* Calum
Turbocard becomes available, so if they
choose either an SSL or CSA unit they'll
just have to live with ft. Console yourselves
with the thought that fitting anything in
an A3QO0 fast slot ts hell itself.
SSL B5000-25
Speed
Compatibility
##•••••#00
Value for money
• • •••••QQQ
Overall
>#000
upgrade path is cheaper than CVP's. In
terms of speed. Mercury performs well, even
with its slower SIMMs, and just pipped C-
Force on the AIBB3 benchmarks,
for those completely batty on percentage
points, the differences are fairly noticeable,
but in practice when working on something
like PaoeStream you'd be stretched to say
which card your A3000 was using.
We're reserving judgement, until next
month's 66040 test, by which time we'll
have completed exhaustive tests using more
practical applications, and had a chance to
see how stable the boards are over an
extended period of time.
PPS Mercury card
Speed
••«
Compatibility
••••••«
Value for money
3
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Overall
••••••••OO
Product Information
24-bit cards
Hartequin is a product of Amiga Centre
Scotland
Distributor; Amiga Centre Scotland
Tel; 031 -557 4242
Unit tested: Hartequin 2000, 2Mb VRAM, Alpha
Channel
Price £1,100
DCTV is a product of Digital Creations Inc
Distributor Silica Systems
Tel: 081-309 1111
Unit tested: Standard PAL DCTV
Price; £499
Progressive
Peripherals and
Software
Progressive Peripherals joined the speed
race late in the day with their A2QO0-based
68040 card last year. The board was well
built, stable,, and fast enough to augur well
for the company's late thrust in this sector.
PPS's latest release is the Mercury 68040
card for the A3Q0O, and if our initial tests
are anything to go by, it looks every bit as
good as the original board.
Mercury, like C-Force and Fusion Forty,
[j a 2SMHz card. Unlike CForce, however,
the PPS board has room for a whopping
32Mb of extra memory, and is supplied
with 60ns SIMMs.
These aren't as fast as the lightnirtg-like
40ns GVT SIMMs, but Mercury can accept
a wider range of standard chips (including
the 40ns type il you wish) and if you're not
dependent on memory speed the RAM
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Accelerators jargon buster
32-bit
This is the die of each memory byte. A 16-blt memory byte is only halUs wide « •
32-bit byte and can hold lesi information. Il follows that a system based on chuck
' . u.i.ka *.*,ri inrunxrii much niikker,
you must make sure you have enough 32-bil ftAM with your accelerator card, as It IS
a waste of time using a 63030 or 040 with 16 bit memory
80ns vs 40ns
Eighty nanoseconds «ouW be written as moHOOVK In other wort* it s a rather
short blip In microchip circles, hoover, a nanosecond is an appreciable un,l r
relative to a quick chat ai the bus slop or a cigarette while waiting for the ir.
An Bum RAM chip lakes twice as long to access as a 40ns chip, so all opera ions
involving throwing large amounts of data back and Inward in RAM, such as large
lei »« .nimations benefit hugely from the faster chip,, Look out for the speed
ol your boards ftAM chips «hen you have such applications .n mind.
FPU (maths co-processor)
The Floating Point Unit (FPU) is an invaluable aid todl 'number<runching^ tasks A
number crunching lask is anything involving the computer m million! of calcula-
tions, such as ray tracing, statistical analysis, and so on.
Without the m&Vtmi family ol FPUs most accelerator cards wwld run Jot
sW in practice, so another detail to watch out for when buying a card is the FPU
fitted. 68O40 chips have the equivalent of a 6B882 built in
MMU
Memory Management Units are built in to every standard fiflOJO chip, but are
hardly ever used by programs. They are designed to keep track of system memory,
and in particular any shadow ROM area being used by Kickstarl
I as the feature is so little used, there is now a 68EC030 chip Mihoul MMU and
costing significantly less, and this is used on the new, cheaper CSA Midget Racer
cards and the Microbotks VXL-30 range.
Imagicfl VD20O1 is a product of G2 Systems
Distributor-. G2 Systems
Tel: 0252 737151
Unit tested: Professional model
MoK £395 [standard model), £750 (prate
iional model)
Impact Vision 24 is a product of CVP Inc
Distributor: Silka Systems
fet (81-3091111
Unit tested; Standard LV24 bundle
Price: £1 ,799, to include free RGB splitter
Avldeo 24 is a product of Archos Ltd
Distributor: Checkmate Digital
Teh 071-923 0658
Unit tested: Standard AVidea 24/
TVPainl bundle
Price: £599 (includes TVPaint 1 .6)
Accelerators
Fusion Forty is i product of RCS
Management Inc.
Distributor Hydra Systems
Tel: 0203471m
Unit tested: 2BMH? 6&040 with 4Mb RAM
Price: £1,395
Mercuiy is a product of Progressive Peripherals
and Software, 454 Kalamath Street, Denver,
Colorado 80204
Tel: (0101) 303 82S 41 44
Distributors: Maram (081-941 61 1 A or Power
Computing (0234 8433S8)
Unit tested: 2BM;Hz 63040, 4Mb RAM
Price: US12749.95
G-Fcnte ii a product of CVP Inc
Distributor: Silica Systems
Tel: 081-390 1111
Unil tested: 28MHz 68040 vJith 2Mb RAMs
Price: £1,949
Combo: 33MHz68Q30, 33MHz 6B8S2,
4Mb RAM
Price: £999
Mega Midget Racer is a product ol Computer
Systems Assodates
Distributor: Omega Projects
Tel: 0925 763946
Unit tested: 25MHz 6BEC030, 33MHz 68882,
2Mb RAM
Price: E850
B5000 is a product of Solid State Leisure Ltd
Distributor: Solid State Leisure
Tel: 0933 650677
Unit tested: 25MHz 68030, 3JMHI 6BBB2,
2Mb RAM
Price: £499
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LP1200
Ricoh UK Lid !& part of the worldwide Ricoh Group of companies, originally established in
Japan, in 1936. With a turnover of wer $5 &<><on and 37,000 pius emptoyees, Ricoh has
been producing computers an# peripherals Sirtee 1971. they are renowned in the industry
as pioneers in the field of Office Automation Equipment end have won many awards for
outstanding industrial design. Ricoh have employed all their expertise to produce a 'first'
in laser printers for the worldwide market, the LP120Q with FLASH ROM,
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processor and engine, together with straight paper path design, allows printing at a full 6
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to enable the Ricoh LP1200 to print st 400dpi from Windows &
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'LAYOUT, offers unique opportunities to develop custom-
made printing systems. In particular, forms and document
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I must congratulate Francois Lionel
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or even less.
Finally the fourth accessory is mind-
Wowing. It is a fully functional disk utility
in a similar mould to CLIMATE, SID and
many others. These., and other similar
programs, allow you to look at all the Ties
on your disks, as well as providing you
with facilities to format disks, copy, print
and examine files and so on.
One of the nicest features of this pro-
gram is that if you examine a Bob, a pic-
ture or music file, or a sound sample, you
can actually see or play it.
All of these utilities can be launched
with a single keypress from the program
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editor, a feature which many people will
find very handy.
Disk number two becomes the exam-
ples disk. This ii where all of the Easy
Amos demo programs are stored Among
this varied selection are a nifty
Breakout/Arkanoid type game, a two-
player cycle race (with parallax scrolling),
a simple address file, a Kick Off clone
(well, almost!) and finally a rather natty
little scrolling text demo.
Tutorial
The final disk becomes the most essen-
tial part or the Easy Amos package - the
tjtorial disk. This disk contains many
things, Including a selection of programs
demonstrating the programming princi-
ples explored in the manual.
The largest portion of the disk is taken
up by a series ol example programs
which slot together to form the complete
football game which I mentioned earlier.
The excellent manual together with
these highly commented-upon examples
Lake you from the program's conception
through to completion. If you have not
started to understand some of the princi-
ples behind computer programming
once you have studied this part, get wor-
ried!
A challenge game is also squeezed
onto this disk. As Easy Amos is advertised
as teaching the beginner to program, this
game forms the core of the whole pack-
age. It presents a selection of questions
from each chapter in the manual and
challenges you to answer them.
Obviously if you have absorbed the
knowledge contained in this book you
will be able successfully to work your way
through this challenge. Results can be
saved onto a floppy disk sp there is no
need to tackle every chapter in one sit-
ting.
The environment in which you create
your programs has changed a little
since the earlier incarnation of Amos.
The screen and file selectors are now
made up from eight colours, making
things look a bit more interesting. As is
the current vogue, Eu repress have gone
for the Workbench 2.xx look, sort of
metallic with lots of relief on the dia-
logue boxes.
Unfortunately everything is a bit, errr
what's the word, blue! Yes the whale
screen is blue, not my favourite colour.
You can change the screen setup with a
click on the menu, but the built-in
colour selections look as though they
have been put together by a colour-
blind designer. Yuk!
So how about the manual? This, after
all, was probably the most criticised
point of the original Amos package,
which contained an excellent reference
manual but didn't give any help or
advice to the beginner.
Well you will be pleased to know that
Mel Croucher, a lunny man known for
his love of strange,
big-nosed charac-
ters, has written a
gigantic tutorial
manual. In fact, to
call it a manual is a
bit of an insult - it
is a book, aimed at
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Jnckidu a tuuplr of
riample gnmri
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substantial discount.
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Ltd. Europa House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP,
the very beginner. It starts by assuming
you know very little about your Amiga
and advances from there.
The are 20 chapters to this book. As
you work your way through this special
script you will notice that it doesn't Just
teach you about programming your
Amiga, it also includes strange quotes
from sources as diverse as Groucho
Marx and the Bible. Each quote is rele-
vant (in a rather offbeat way) to the
section in which it is placed. This is cer-
tainly a wilcome relief from the usual
tedium of some so-called computer
"tutorial" books.
Towards the end of the manual,
advanced topics such as the new Amos
Tutor are covered. The Amos Tutor is a
complete debugger for your programs.
It allows you to step through each sec-
tion of your mega-hit, list variables - in
fact do just about anything, and all
while the program is running in the
background.
Great depth
Each chapter covers its own topic in
great depth, providing diagrams and
sample listings aimed at easing you
through the lesson at hand.
There are a couple of down points
though. The first is in the LOGIC chap,
ter. Without going into my entire life
story, I have learnt that structured pro-
gramming is here to stay - an A-Level
in Computer Science and many jobs
have taught me this.
The LOGIC chapter has a rather
large section devoted to the antiquated
"GOTO" command, much more than
the "GQSUB" or the "PROCEDURE"
portions. I would hate to see an entire
generation ol computer programmers
grow up believing GOTOs are a part ol
life - they aren't! Fortunately you can
just ignore this page and explore the
mow sensible structuring commands.
The chapter devoted to MATHS is
rather small. I know you can gain a lot
of information about computer maths
from some nice text books but I would
like to have seen more lengthy explana-
tions and sample programs for the
trigonometry bit.
Humorous
Those points aside, this really is the
best programming book I have read for
years. Not since the early 80s when old
Sir Give Sinclair produced that little
ZX81 beastie has programming seemed
so easy. At its best the manual is an
amazing in-depth tutorial; at its worst it
is a friendly and .humorous reference
guide, which can't be a bad thing at all!
When you have become a program-
mer capable of fantastic feats with Easy
Amos, you can increase your knowledge
and skill by upgrading to the package's,
big brother, Amos. Amos incorporates
many advanced features not found in
Easy Amos, such as a complete 3D
graphics extension. The upgrade costs
£1 9.99, against a retail price ol £49-99.
This is a unique and friendly product.
Suffice to say that if you want to learn
how to program, this is for you. By the
time you have worked your way
through the entire package you should
be able to produce some great pro-
grams. Go out and buy it
now!
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with Martin Wilson's excellent compendium
of Chance
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you should find enough here to provide
hours of entertainment.
Unlike many card game programs,
Martin's faithfully reproduces the picture
cards, so your Kings, Queens and lacks
appear as they should. This not only
makes the program more attractive to
look at, It also makes scanning a Klondike
deck for possible moves a lot easier, as
the picture cards can be spotted with
ease. To select a card in any of the
games, click once on it and it will start to
flash. To move it, just click on the destina-
tion. If the move is illegal, the screen will
flash and you'll have to try placing the
card somewhere else.
GFXConverter
Author: Desmond King
GFXConverter is a program for convert-
ing to and from IFF and fcaw graphic for-
mats, with a few hidden extra features up
its sleeve. Unlike many IFF-to-Raw con-
Jkmtga Computing May 1992
ve rters, with their difficult to use CLI
interfaces and simple conversion-only
approach, C-FXConverter will enable the
user to save sprites, bobs, and copper
lists, The program handles all Amiga
screen modes, including EHB and HAM,
can handle images up to 1,024 x 1,024,
and, saves Bobs as source or binary code
with masks thrown in to the bargain. All
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minority. For technical details and full
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LastHope
Author: Manuel Lemos
We've had DiskSalv, TrackSalv, and
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from: oblivion. It only works with the
standard filing system at the moment, so
will only work with floppies. Hard drive
users will have to stick to FixDisk until
Manuel updates the program. To use
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the disk from, which you want to salvage
files in the drive, then tell the program to
start scanning, A picture of your disk's
contents will build up, sector by sector,
with damaged files shown in red, and
when Lhe scan is over you'll be asked
which files, if any, you want to save out
to another disk.
Please remember that this is a share-
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as such. You'll' find details on how to reg-
ister as a shareware user in Manuel's on-
disk documentation.
Pro
AuthdrflNeil Culver
ProgHelp is designed for all those pro-
grammers out there who use a variety
of text editors, debuggers and assem-
blers from different, usually shareware,
sources. It offers the chance to inte-
grate the programming process under
one front end program, making it eas-
ier to skip from assembler to debugger
and so on without all that CLI faffing
about.
Print Spooler
Author: Danrel Barrens
Print Spooler consists of an AmigaDGS
device handler to replace the PRT
device, a couple of simple CLI com-
mands, and a meuntlist entry.
To set it up on your system disk, fol-
low the instructions in the on-disk doc-
umentation. You'll have to do a fair bit
of copying and so on, but if you use
SID, TDM (such as supplied on the
Graphic Station), or another directory
utility this shouldn't be too painful.
Alienbounce
Author: |ason Shallcrass
Bouncing aliens, a seemingly
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Superbase
Special
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one of the Amiga's premier databases, lt J i
a program that not only provide* access
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but also gives you the option to include a
limitless number of records and instantly
display related graphics at the touch of a
button.
Continued
Support
In next month's AC we'll continue to sup-
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ol support articles that will help the
novice user master the basics of this
excellent program.
As well as AC'S continuing support
Oxxi, the owners gf Superbase Personal
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All, of course, aimed at any
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excellent program to the full.
To get you off the mart we'll
start with a brief guide to the
program and how to create your
first designer database. If we
assume you've booted the pro-
gram you'll be greeted by the
copyright notice and a prompt in the
menu bar informing you that the pro-
gram is empty. As a result, the first job Is
to load a file from desk,
To do this, simply click the right
mouse button and move to the Project
menu which you'll find on the far left of
the menu bar. Once active, the pull-down
will appear with some items active and
others ghosted - this is simply because
the program requires data to activate all
its options.
Select Open/ File and a requester will
appear showing all the available files on
the disk. With the mouse select the
address file and dick OK.
Now the database actually contains
some data we can start the tutorial
proper. Perhaps the most striking aspect
of the program has to be the tape deck
controls which combine to make Personal
and indeed the entire Superbase range
one of the friendliest database formats
available.
Have a look al the box for a descrip-
tion of each control. In some cases the
effect is rather self explanatory, but with
others you'll discover some of the pro-
gram's more interesting hidden talents.
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■Tint
If I IK
database via the project menu, Once
clear select New from the same menu
and a prompt will appear ashing you to
name the new file. For our example type
NamesSi Numbers, followed by OK,
New Requester
At this paint a totalty new requester
appears into which we'll add all the rele-
vant definitions for each field in the new
fife, first click on text - this again pro-
duces a fresh requester giving you the
chance to define the number of clwac-
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rmi^tt into III* act'totr - tunc c«cfr tit a button ami your
coma Oyintf inta the action
To start you off this month we'll go
through the creation of a simple database
which when complete will farm a basic
phone book complete with name,
address, number, comment and date
fieWs.
The first job is to close the current
lupetbme ttarti to show Ju muide. Tattt in ntxt month toi a daitr took
at thr prnyrnn? \ power teotam. .
ters in the string. Reduce the figure to 1 5
using the arrow icons and click on OK.
Now click in the Field box and type
Firstname. Click on ADO and your first
field will be defined, if al any point you
make a mistake or perhaps wish to alter
part of the definition, simply click on the
field in question within the main
requester window and it will automati-
cally be selected for editing.
To create the next field, click on Clear
to remove the old definition and follow
the same procedure again by clicking on
text defining the string length., but this
time make it 20. Type the word
Lastnarne into the field
window, finally adding the
new field to the list. Ne«t
comes the phone nurnbet
itself, Again, click on Gev
and then select Te*t.
adding the value of yovt
choice, Type in the word
Number but also click on
the Req icon wilt-
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■uch use without a number. Finally
■fctct add ante metre. Now follow the
ume procedure as above using the word
iomment for tfie field name, while leav-
'ic required icon inactive. We sug-
gest a text st ring of about 50 characters -
usually enough for 3 fax or alternate
♦(one number plus a few brief
•wninders.
The final field hotels the date. This is a
eaeful addition as you can use it to keep
tack of your calls, by editing each record
as you use it to record when a conwersa-
« occurred, or perhaps, as a marker for
subsequent calls.
Again, click on Clear to empty the last
»et of definitions, but this time only acti-
vate the date icon. This again produces
its own requester which allows you to
define how the dates within each record
w>ll appear onscreen.
For your first adventure in information
technology, simply select OK as the
default setup, Finally type Date Into the
ieW window followed by Add to com-
plete the definition. Now your definition
a complete, check that all the fields are
correct and then click on OK to continue.
At this point yet another requester
appears- prompting you to add the
indexes you require. To do this simply
click on the First name followed by OK
then repeat the process with
Secondname. Finally, click on OK to com-
plete the process.
At this point you'll be returned to the
Superbase Personal main screen. To fill
the new file select New from the record
pull-down menu and the new template
for the Mames& Numbers file wNI appear.
All you need now is a few friends - not
included - to add to your database, and
you're in business.
After you've added the new data to
each record, select Save from the record
menu and all the relevant information will
be captured for posterity in your own
designer database. Feel free to experi-
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First on the lisl is the Pause iron which will Iree/e the database at it smilh
through your data thanks to the fast forward and rewind Icons.
Next comes the Stop icon which does exactly as the name suqcjesK and halts
the program's high speed search functions,
Third and ninth are the Move to Bey inning /Move to End icons which
instantly leap through the data lisi to dilni Mil hnjinninn or end nl the data
file
fourth and eighth are again rather self explanatory and simple scroll through
the data file at high speed until either the end of file is reached or lln pm
stop icons are activated.
The filth and seventh lams simply advance or retard through the d.ii.ih.i • i
increments of one.
The Up arrow is slightly less obvious and is used to restore the display after
certain program functions are complete,
Occasionally I unctions terminate displaying associated data, and as a rctuH
this Icon Is used to update the display with ihe currently selected record.
The final three icons are potentially much more powerful lh.»k ili> rest The
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Index relprs to the Odd within a retard whiili Supi rfease uses to list ihe
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Touch Button Filters
To use the Record key funiiuin you must ensure that the database is llrsl
Indexed on the correct Held arid then simply type In the match you require rite
program will than search thai particular Held In every record and if a match
enisls it will return displaying the complete record associated with ih.il partJCU
lar Held.
As you've probably guessed, lii-lil refers h. Hit' individually elements wiihin
each record - Forename, Last name. Address and so on,
Ihe next Icon hides perhaps the most powerful function ol all the tap* Hirfc
contruls. Clicking here reveals ihe Filler Requester which when mastered can (II
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require.
Assuming you still have Ihe Address Hie loaded, click on Ihe filter Icon and
then tllrk on the word Country in the left window. Mow click on the Like (con
Of) the right nl Ihe requester,
Type me into th4 value In.. ,iml hit return . Now click on [In- OR mm then the
word Country once again, deselect Ihe value box and type frtutct. Click on OK.
(he program will ROW automatically HHer mil ail records (hat suit your require
iK.
The Like command means i is , 1 1 vnu iinoT require ■ perfect arammatkai
mjlrh, while I hi- OR option <iivi-\ you the change lo expand youi horfl
Include M many countries as you like Isn't lechnuluqy wonderful? The linal Icon
depicts a camt-M
l> v'ui iIm- his icon while editing a file containing graphics, |hc- program
will execute dial paftkulai leatnl's r*ici>ial search path and attempt tu InaiJ
and display the particular giaphic associated with Hie record in question
If you try la use this option with the Address database inrrenlly loaded tin
program will return the message 'no external hie Retd defined in other wnnis
(he Address file doe so t contain qi,i|ihn I
As with Ihe Filter option, tin. p, nl n liim tinu is going to DC explained fully
in a laic 1 1 issue Nevertheless it you want to see the lunciion in action straight
•way simply go to the Project pull down window and selecl Close/File,
Another requester will appear prompting you for a Hie name to save under.
Simply click on address to reselett the original name followed by OK. Now
Superbase is empty once more and ready to accept another file from disk.
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Picture lile Irom the load tile requester Once loaded you can move around thr
data b ase AS before, hut you'll also have the added bonus of being able lo ver
the lile s associated pictures onscreen.
Simply selecl ihe record jmu want to ■■> n iim ami click on the camera kon
the image will lie ,m |[|y loaded from disk. To spot the display process*
select Close from the lirsl pull down menu.
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In a break from tradition, the pro-
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launch their second interna!
release, The Alternative 3D Textures.
This is a selection of 18- and 24-bit
backgrounds created by Alternative's
wry own Henri Bujko - originally for
use within the company's commercial
exploits.
The collection isn't solely second-
hand, as several original textures have
been added to sweeten the already
tempting pot. Having said that, the
majority are 18-bit creations - scanned
m-house - and edited to produce high
quality backdrops aimed primarily at
the ray tracing and 24-bit paint com-
munity.
Along with the 18-bit images come
a selection of 24- bit creations which
Alternative farmed out for scanning
and subsequent inclusion in the collec-
tion, Although the prospect of employ-
ing 18 - as opposed to 24-bit may
causae concern among the purists, the
contrast between the two is negligible
- it only really becoming apparent
when applied to extremely large
images.
As well a s 1 8- and 24 -bit colour
images, the collection is also available
as eight-colour Scala-style backdrops,
colour greys cales for bump and alti-
tude mapping within Real 3D and
Imagine plus good, old-fashioned Ham
for the financial mortals among use. As
a result pros and amateurs alike have
an equal opportunity to get in on the
let
The IS- and 24-bil options come in
two volumes with approximately 14
disks to each. The average file runs to
about 750k - as a result it doesn't take
a genius to work out that you'll be
looking at, on average, an image a
Au G * A
update
The Amiga software market is as buoyant
as ever Paul Austin brings you all the
revisions and revamps - first!
disk. Each of the two 24-blt volume*
cost £5G a time - which 1 must admit
seems a little pricey. Nevertheless, the
results speak for themselves, so it's per-
haps a classic case of "you get what
you pay tor".
Having had my little moan, it's
worth stressing that the Alternative col-
lection - even at £50 per volume - is
still a fair price in comparison to other
24-bil texture collections.
If you're a more traditional artist - in
other words skint - there's perhaps a
more attractive offer in the form of
Alternative's Ham examples which are
made up of between 30 and 40 texture
files for a mere £30-
The 18-bit, 24-bit and Ham collec-
tions all come with a selection of
Henri's favourite Real 3D animation files
to get you started, which among other
things reveal a few tricks of the trade.
The most interesting addition is a file
which sets up an environment contain-
ing the notoriously tricky water effect.
For more details contact Alternative
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TVPaint and
IV24 on test
The heart-rending saga of the IV-24 and
its associated (and somewhat problem-
atic) paint package goes from strength to
strength, As promised in last month's
update spectacular I have indeed got my
sticky little fingers on the board's latest
release, TVPaint. The package itself is
identical to the Harlequin variant apart
24 Ml beauty at r*e hett «n of the gonfcn
dunning 14b.1t htiLkyroandf In tint haodf vf " ifr* ml""
Henri Bi^*o at All bat - h therm a pflrrAIflfrtat In the house?
Software
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Frankl in. font
Frank! In. font
Frankl in- 'ontw
Frank] 1 n < font *V
Franklin, font
A selection of
thr power
requester! from
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graduation
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io utter*,
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Irom the Big Edit option, which allows you
to scroll around and edit images above
the board's available resolution, and the
fact that there's no support for an Alpha
channel - that particular option requires
32-bit architecture.
On boot up, the program appears to
be identical to the original. The differences
only appear when you start to apply the
painL The Did IV problem of slow screen
update will still annoy purists, but it's not
quite as bad as the appallingly slow Macre
PainL
Aside from the slight speed enhance-
ment, the biggest benefit is the actual
application of the paint. Unlike Macw
Paint, TVPaint applies the correct cotour I
the canvas as the stokes are applied. As a
result, it's sure to be infinitely more attrac-
tive to those interested in freehand art-
Having mentioned the plusses, (Ts time
for the odd minus. AWhough the speed «
far from perfect, the worst flaw concern
graduated areas, For example, whe*i
sizeable airbrush is applied, it produce*
very noticeable colour stepping as the gra-
dient fades. This also applies to al ?afe
ated fills. It's true the problem can be
partially repaired with sorrw add
dithering, nevertheless it's lar from «te*
The cause of the problem t
Ajttfga Complin* Aft*
rr^Software
the programs 12 bit display. It b possible
to view the image in true 24 bit but paint-
ing is strictly restricted to 12 bit, not an
ideal situation, by any means. To sum up,
it's lair to say that TVPaint, although still by
far the most flexible and functionally well-
blessed package in the business, is nothing
short of a disappointment on the IV. II the
graduation problem could be addressed it
could be a totally different story, but at
present I rli>d it very hard to recommend
the extra expensive involved in upgrading
to this particular variant of the generally
excellent TVPaint- If any additional
upgrades appear, you'll be the first to
know.
For more details contact The Amiga
Centre Scotland on 031-557 3260.
Saxon Publisher
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Wth the recent release of PageStream 2.2
and the imminent arrival of ProFage 3.0,
the DTP race is really hotting up. To add
even more fuel to the fire, Saxon Industries
are on the brink of releasing an alkiew ver-
sion of Sa*on Publisher.
As a result, don't miss the |uly issue of
AC, as we'll be providing the definitive
guide to DTP, structured drawing and the
costs involved in turning your onscreen cre-
ations into lullylledged publications. Plus
there'll be a thorough guide to the big
three programs, which by then will be slog-
ging it out lor the title of the top DTP pack-
age,
Perhaps the most noticeable enhance-
ment in Saxon Publisher is the addition of a
fully independent PostScript interpreter.
SaxonScript Professional. This standalone
program comes as part of an overall pack-
age and is designed to convert standard
Amiga-based output into its PostScript
equivalent.
The next impressive addition is
the option to employ both
Macintosh and PC Type 1 fonts, with-
out the need for any font conversior
If s true that other packages such
PageStream can also employ such for
but only via a rather complex and con
ing conversion process.
The ne*t totally original and interest
option is Saxon's proprietary monitor 1 o
bration utility, which corrects monih
phosphors to ensure maximum gnscree
colour accuracy- With this addition, tha
famous phrase "but it looked OH
onscreen...' could become an excuse of
the past-
Aside from the variety of whistles and
bells which all three boast, perhaps the
most important addition to any package is
its ability to utilise additional fonts. Here
Saxon Publisher does particularly well,
with access to all downloadable PostScnpt
fonts including Adobe Types 1 and 3, plus
Compugraphlc Type 3 fonts, which are
widely available from ProPage,
PageStream, Agfa Compugraphlc, Adobe
Systems and, of course, the public
domain.
Presentation
masterpiece
Way back in the January issue of AC we
were the first magazine to explore Qaxi's
excellent Presentation Master, a program
which we believe has had nothing like the
Hot news for CVP's board
It's been a trying lime for CVP's luck
less 24-bit board, but finally there
appears to be light at the end of the
tunnel. Added appeal is provided hy
the arrival of TVPaint, hut this Is only
the tip Of the iceberg, as GVP make a
valiant attempt to claw back some
appeal lor their ill-fated creation
Employing the board to its full
potential is a little more involved
than simply installing the software
First you must replace a ROM on the
board itsell. I can hear your screams
from here r but don't despair - the
installation is simplicity itself,
Perhaps more importantly the afore-
■„ii,l upgrade is completely free.
Silica, the UK distributor of the IV,
are at this very moment posting new
ROMs to all registered users, The
new chip has a dual purpose - to fix
any incompatibility problems wrih
joltware such as TVPaint, and to
speed up the board's notoriously
slow screen update.
<fl l ffo.
new
mod-
The first objective appears lu have
been met completely, but to be hon
est the increased update speed is at
best negligible
The second bit of excellent news is
that the new ROM isn't the only free-
hie on oiler. As regular readers will
know, the IV24 requires a RGB sh
to employ both picture in pi l
(PI?) and its un-board Irame gra
options. As a result, 90 per rj
uitrs without access to RGB
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Programming
When It comes to program-
ming your computer It is
obviously important to
decide upon a language to use. Some lan-
guages are better suited to certain applica-
tions than others and it can be a difficult
task ascertaining which approach to
adopt.
The most popular language on the
*niga is unctoubtaWy C - not surprising,
is most of the operating system was
developed in BCPL However, Hi Soft have
just released a Pascal compiler which is set
to rival C for its iow-1evet programming
features and speed.
Highspeed Pascal is a new version of an
old language. Pascal was originally con-
ceived around 1972 by Professor NiUaus
Wirth of the Zurich ETH - his institute -
and has remained in use in academic cir-
cles ever since its inception. It is not only
an academic language, however, as Turbo
Pascal has proved on the IBM PC,
Structured
Pascal is widely taught structured and
first contact with it is usually found when
somebody takes on a course of higher
education. Most computer science stu-
dents will find that their course relies heav-
ily on Pascal programming and it is the
first structured language except for Bask
which they come into contact with.
Pascal is a strongly typed language,
that is to say that the variable types and
declarations cannot be mucked about
with. For instance, in the C language there
is no type checking which basically means
you can store any type, any place, any
time.
Not that C programmers drink a lot of
Martini, but if you put w integer where a
procedure or function expects a char vari-
able to be the compiler won't know the
difference. In Pascal you need to rely on
types being of the correct, well, type!
This is how Pascal encourages good
programming skills - it is a tidy language,
and enables a program from one source to
be easily modified and maintained at a
later date by a different programmer.
Pascal programs are much more readable
than, say, a C program will be, and as
such more understandable In a quicker
period of time than their C equivalents.
Pascal has been in use for such a long
time because of its ability to teach and
encourage structured programming. It is
quite likely that it shall remain so until
another language with better features
comes along.
Contender
Such a contender for the programming
crown could well be MODULA-2 which Is
a relatively new language intended to
supersede Pascal- But it has not been
taken up by many people and could well
be a misnomer.
Anyway, back to Highspeed Pascal. The
first thing that strikes yew about this prod-
uct is the packaging - a disk wallet con-
taining two versions of the Workbench,
1.3 and 20, and the Pascal compiler disk.
Accompanying these are the rather large
ring-bound manuals, one being the user
manual and the other a technical refer-
ence manual.
The IBM PC is the industry-standard
personal computer and as such has a
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Turbo C, and
Highspeed Pascal on
the Amiga is intended
to allow portability of
programs between
the machines,
Highspeed Pascal
contains many com-
mands which emulate
those irt Turbo Pascal,
particularly the graph-
ics commands for set-
ting palette colours and drawing lines. To
test this out I took a mandelbrot set pro-
gram written in Turbo Pascal and entered
it into the Amiga. The program needed a
few small alterations where the Turbo
command was not available to Highspeed
Pascal but this was minimal.
The'first thing I noticed was the speed
of the compiler - this is where the name
Highspeed comes from! It's very fast, and
compiled the program in under five sec-
onds - well, after all the typing errors had
been corrected. Indeed it's so fast that
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there's very little time to see it compiling
all your program. - it only displays the cur-
rent line at the time of compiling. If your
program is fairly short, say 20 or JO lines.
you'll only ever see it compile one or two
of them,
After compilation, the mandelbrot set
program ran and worked as expected. This,
is a test of floating point maths and as
such is quite a good estimate of how fast
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the calculations are. The program took 1 00
iterations and approximately five hours to
complete the set, which in a high-level Lan-
guage is relatively fast. A similar program
written in AmigaBasic would probably have
taken much longer,
Highspeed Pascal also caters, for those
who already program or intend to program
their machine at the lowest level, as it takes
advantage of ail the custom library routines
in the Amiga's ROMs. It is a relatively sim-
ple task, as all the library routines are con-
tained in a datafile called a unit. This
approach is used to ensure compatibility
with IBM Turbo Pascal.
A little difficulty was encountered when
using these (unctions., but HiSoft do offer a
technical support line. If you're having
problems, I strongly recommend you get in
touch with them.
Each library has an associated unit and
this provides support for all the C structures
and constants which the Amiga expects
when using the ROM routines. All the
structures, constants and library routines
named have remained the same except for
those which conflict with the reserved
words in the Pascal language. In this case
HiSoft have added an underscore to the
library name and have documented most
of the changes in the manuals.
Test
As a test I decided I would try to initialise
a screen and window structure and use
these to open a screen and a window. After
consulting the Libraries and Devices manu-
als for the required screen and window
structures 1 began to program in Pascal.
As I mentioned earlier, the structures
required are contained within the associ-
ated library unit, Alt the user need do is ini-
tial ise the structures with the required
values and then call the resident library
routine. Filling structures is fairly easy,
although with a language like Pascal the
code is much more involved than, say, its
assembler equivalent,
II you're defining a type as a specific
structure, you will find that all the struc-
tures you require are spelt the same as in
the FtOM manuals but prefixed with a V
to denote type. Likewise, all the pointer
Manual dexterity - the documentation
Some products are let down by inadequate documentation.
This can be a major problem if you buy a product and intend to
work with it seriously. With Highspeed Pascal, however, the
docu mentation is of an excellent quality and is aimed at the
beginner as well as the professional user.
The manuals supplied with the package contain much infor-
mation to get you started as soon as possible, whether you are
an old hand or a beginner. There's a complete Introduction la-
the language explaining Pascal's various statements and variable
types and information on file handling. The chapters on the lan-
guage are very informative and help instil a better understand-
ing of hew programs are constructed.
An introduction to the language takes up a large part of one
manual and I suppose is intended to teach Pascal programming,
albeit at a very rudimentary level, However it is complete and if
you've programmed in other languages it should suffice as an
introduction to the language.
11 you are a beginner then you should consider buying a text-
book, as this will contain much information and examples to
get you started. I have no reason to believe that examples con-
tained within a textbook would not work in Highspeed Pascal -
it contains, as far as I can see, all the standard types and state-
ments of standard Pascal as well as other customised features,
Files on the Amiga can be a real pain, needing many van-
ables to get you working with them, But Highspeed Pascal takes
the commands used in standard Pascal and adds a few of its
own to enable the efficient programming and use- of files.
The reset and rewrite commands from standard Pascal are
implemented along with a few other file commands.
Compatibility with standard Pascal and Turbo Pascal is main-
tained as much as possible.
As in Turbo Pascal, the various constants and library routines
are contained within a unit. You can inherit a unit into your pro-
gram by the Uses command. Vou would, for instance, type the
following to inherit the various library routines and constants:
m« em, Jngadcs, [ntultiuJi;
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This woutd inherit the exec and das library routines and also the
intuition functions and constants which enable you to use
screens and windows. As you can see, it is a fairly easy task and
should present no problems to an avid Amiga programmer.
There are chapters on some of the units functions and a
complete list of error messages. The error messages are not
explained enough for my liking and more thought could have
been put into the documentation. This coukJ be particularly
annoying for the beginner where a lull explanation is required
in order to get things moving.
Also implemented is an inline assembler so you can write
assembly language routines alongside Pascal routines, if you're
interested, If you're considering working with the assembler, a
complete list of instructions is provided and the assembler sup-
ports all the various commands of the 68000 processor includ-
ing the DC directive for declaring types and sizes.
The user manual is of a good quality and contains informa-
tion on the editor explaining the use of the various features like-
cut, copy and paste. There is also a section on the compiler -
how to compile, building your own units and its various menu
functions.
Compiler preferences are covered loo. The preferences con-
tain things like range checking to ensure that array dimensions
are not exceeded within your program.
types are prefixed with a w p". After having
completed the programming the program
was compiled, Typing errors reported by
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Tutorial
Last jinonth's support column took
the form of an easy introduction
to The Directory Manager (TDM),
which is central to many of the operations
you'll be tarrying out with your
Graph icStation disk. To use the program
ijst to copy and delete files, however,
would be to miss its great potential.
You should by now have noticed the
funny tittle bar at the bottom of the central
gadget strip. This is the external command
gadget, and its deceptively modest appear-
ance belies its true power. It Is one of
TDM's most useful features,
When you first load TDM, the external
command gadget will sport the word
•Run". This is the command it is presently
set to apply to the program of your choke.
To run a program this way, elkk on the
program to highlight it, then dick on the
command gadget. If you have chosen an
executable file - a program rather than a
document or icon - it wii now run.
Numeric keys
So much for running programs, if
you're thinking "so what it I want to use
another command?" , 07 the numeric keys
at the top of your keyboard- Keys one to
zero toggle the command gadget through
the ten commands you can set up for your
own use, though only five of them are in
use when you boot up The OraphicStation.
Using Brun to run a pro-gram in the
background, MMPP to view normal and
powerpacked text files, PPShow to exam-
ine IFF files, and QED to edit text files, you
can control, through TDM, a wide variety
of tasks, |uit press the correct numeric key
to select the command you need, then
click on your file and on the command
gadget and off you go.
Try moving to the S: directory, then
press numeric key five to display the QED
nwUConio '* frMidfc "* d ""* '* mr
If
• !,.:■ hltit »i low T* fwrt
command. Now dick once on the startup-
sequence and once on the command gad-
get and the QED text editor will load up
with your startup-sequence ready to edit.
You should be able to carry out as many
operations as you lite without having to
directly load QED or resort to CLI to use
PPShow or MMPP, but what happens when
you tire of the five options on offer?
The left-hand side of the TDMConED
screen is dominated by the ten external
command bars, and changing them Is very
easy. To get rid of the "Cmd 6" string and
replace it with, say, the EXECUTE com-
mand, you |u5t click in the box containing
"Cmd 6", detete it, and type EXECUTE. It
you save the prefs settings and reload TDM,
external command six will now be Execute,
and you can apply it to any script command
you'd like to- run.
Ai you go on to customise your
GraphkStation disk, deleting the odd pro-
gram you never use and adding your own,
TDM's ten exlernarl commands can be used
to control such utilities as NewZap to edit
hex files, or the AMOS compiler.
The uses of this (unction are really only
limited by your requirements. At the
moment, the external commands function
isn't as stable as it might be, but author
Chris Pettet will be continuing to update
TDM. Register as a shareware user and
you'll receive all future upgrades.
Settings
Continuing with TDMConED, the right-
hand side of the screen enables access to
some other settings. There's the system
time, which you can't change from here,
the palette control sliders, and the location
lor TDM external files, To the leit of these is
a section for archiving programs.
You shouldn't change the external files
path unless you've moved the TDM.dg file,
and the archives will be of use only if you
put one on the disk. There wasn't enough
room on the jam-packed CraphicStation for
an archives, but if you later copy one to
your disk, you can. set the extract, add, and
list parameters according to the program's
instructions, then use it from TDM by click-
ing on the files you want to archive and
pressing V.
The palette sliders, on the other hand, are
idea! rl you find our tasteful, refined, easy-
on-the-eye colour scheme is not to your lik-
ing. If you are a person of such (ahem)
dubious taste, you can
change all of TDM's colours
except black and white, then
save your prefs so that the
program boots in whatever
colour scheme you find most
agreeable.
To aid you in choos-
ing your colours, there's a list
Fwntot dbki tnt*
iiufdr TOM <>r [hi-
prta of B Jng#r key
BraphicStation
TDM
internals
of the various text strings you'll find on your
TDM screen below the set of sliders. Keep
an eye on these as you change the default
colours to ensure you don't end up with
text that's too hard to read against the
background colour.
Once you've fiddled enough and saved
out your TDM preferences, you might be
annoyed at having to quit TDM and reload
it so you can use the new settings. You
don't, however, have to go through this
hassle - all you need do is press the U key to
update your prefs settings from within
TDM. This forces TDM to read the current
TDM.dfg fite from the S: directory and pi<*
up the new settings,
To finish this month, I can't leave you
without mentioning the other two very use-
ful key commands available direct from
TDM. If you want to format a disk, for
example, just press the F key. As long as the
Formal command is In your SYS:System
directory (which it is on The
GraphkStation), a requester will pop up to
ask which drive you want to format, then
you'll be asked for a name.
If you want to read a text file, and can't
be bothered using the more powerful
MMPP, TDM has a built-in text reader
which can be used by highlighting the text
file of your choice and press-
ing the R key-
Mease note that no mat- I
tef what you do, you won't I
be able to read powerpacked I
tiles with this option, and will I
have to resort to MMPP. I
Most of the documents on ■
The CraphkStation are paw- I
The trttegmi reaiUtg
fiMKtfna can ntakt viewing
ttil lOn p *>r nni«
Stevie Kennedy
concludes his tour
of CraphicStation's
file manager 1
erpacked, so the read function will be of lit-
tle use at first, even though it's faster and
easier than using an external command.
you should by now know enough about
TDM to keep you going, so we won't be
returning to it in the support articles.
Remember that it is a shareware program.
w if you're going to rely heaviiy on TDM.
contact Chris at the address given in the
About message (press the A key) and send
him some reward for his labours.
Nest month, we'll start to look in detai
at the utilities on CraphicStation, begin-
ning with Paul Burkey's
Picturesque paint program.
CraphicStation brings together iln
best In graphics utilities. To order
your copy, (urn to page 128
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Willy, Horny and all the gang
As welt as the father delectable Heart of Chins reviewed in these very pages.
D™rnmhffl« also got WiHjrBearnisn waiting in die vnngs.
Thl who keep an eye on the PC games market w.11 probably have heard about
this, troublesome tyke, but at long last he's coming to trie Amiga.
Willys an average ninefold living at home with Mom. Dart, little aster. tag
stter arid a dog calted Homy. However, life as a mneyear^d offers ga^oope
2 natf-if rt adventure, and that, just what you'* 9*^^ !f .^^
m only will you have to cope with the usual pre-putoeawt haales. I^ 1 * 1 *
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your Grandad's ghost who
pops up to help out, -and
the vampire babysitter from
Hell. Jokes and puwles galore,
and some cartoon quality
graphics.
It should be out soonish,
for a measly £34. 99. Full
review, as always, next month.
Hit and Myth
Tanked Up
Good news tor sim fans, tos Empire are all worked up and
ready to let their long awaited sequel to Team Yankee roll
out of the shed.
Pacific Wands is the title, and it looks set to beat even
Team Vankee into a cocked hat. The year is 1*95, and some
llnKttr rogue Huskies are threatening world peat* by
invading the Yama Yama Pacific atoll. Your platoon « elos
est to the scene io it i up to you to stop them.
l*t more attention to little details plus faster ID. Look out
for a full review next month.
Gamer Big Day Out
Yup that's rightl Keep June 13 and T4 free m your diaries. weYeoffer.ng
you the chance to have a big day out, courtesy of everyone s favourite
fighter pilots, Microprose.
For the mere price or a itamp you could be enjoying the Air Tourna-
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XdJ swept the board on the M* formats and is garnering a bit of a reputation on the I j
bits.
Reputedly System 3's best game
since IK+. it' J an everyday tale of ^E/ > W/ ^* iM*
traversing Hell to bring goodness and " ^
light to the world Apparently the
graphics have been given a major
overhaul since we last saw them, and
the whole thing moves a lot more sex-
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HV 7 Hying Fortes is lined up lor take off this summer, and M £» <£
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corrupt future where drug barons are running the world from Colombia
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her, played by balding hunk Mi he Iceid. Jools is
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J it is indeed very strange that
a platform game going by the name of
Harlequin has appeared on the Amiga.
Harlequin Has been billed as probably
the strangest game ever. Hmmrn. we
shall see.
Does everyone know what
harlequins art They're the chaps who
dress up in masks and funny chequered
pvamas. They look like a cross between
Dirt Tuipinand.a»uit jester- Bugger
knows what they do.
Apparency, in a faMtf forgotten cor-
ner of the imagination is a smart world
called Chimeric* This world contains all
of our dreams and distant memories.
For years and years it has thrived due to
everyone's hopes, dreams and memo-
ries.
The sole inhabitant is a young boy
with the name of Harlequin. Fancy
being stuck with a name like Harlequin!
A John, or a TOve would have been far
more acceptable. Anyway. Harlequin
spent his early years exploring the
bizarre wo rtd of Chimeric*
Bui all children grow older and
Hariey is no exception. Sure enough,
the world of Chimenca began to lose its
appeal - It was a case of 'been there,
seen it. done if for poor old Haley.
He had become accustomed to the
bizarre and unexpected He had Unary
turned into an adult. Gone were the
days spent playing with Lego. So a
bored Hariey decided to bugger off and
get a new life.
In his absence. Chimeric slowly fell
into a state of disrepair and the land
entered an age of cold reality jhow 3
land falls into an age of coW reality is
beyond met- So with the prospect of no
salvation m sight, Chimera's sadness
deepened until one day its heart broke
and everything was silent.
The years rolled by and then out of
the blue, Hariey appeared ihoorah].
What he saw he didn't like and he
knew it was all his Fault, so he set off
with one all-consuming purpose - to
mend Chimerka's broken heart.
You play the part of Hariey and you
must find ihe four broken parts of
Chimerica's heart before finding the eat
which has now become a heart itself.
There are many lands in Chimenca
for you to explore. There is a dehn«e
puzzle element to the game - a lot of
Ihe time it involves pulling levers and
sucti like. A lot of the puzzles are quite
puzzling- 1 suppose that's why they call
them puzzles - but after a while you
qet to knew how things work and the
rest of them become a little easier to
work out.
To help Harlequin out there are sev-
eral objects dotted around that are
essential in his quest. My favourite
object is the Spate Hopper which allows
Hariey to reach higher platforms, and he
can even crush his enemies who plague
thelandofChimerica.
Hearts are Harley's only kind of fire-
power, but thankfully there are two
som - pint ones and red ones. The red
hearts are the more powerful of the
two, but they don't last long.
Oerall Harlequin is a damn fine plat-
form game. - it's a perfect ©ample of
how far the genre has advanced. The
qraph.es in are stunning to say the least
and its backed up wW some top-ootch
animation.
Hariey pran c «. skids ( tuL tut| - jumps
and swings about the screen like a
denied monkey. On the sound front
rhefe e, re a whole plethora of tunes for
vou to enjoy, but you have an important
choice to make between the tunes and
the sound effects, because unforturatefy
you cant hear both at the same time.
Harlequin has an easy control system,
so you won't be frustrated when the
going gets tough its got to be said that
fhis is a stortcer and a half, t don't really
think strange is the word to explain
Harlequin - perhaps "completely
borikers" is more appropriate.
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There's been a lot of thieving
going on in computer games
recently, hasn't there? What
with Hudson Hawk quipping and rob-
bing his way through Ocean's plat-
formy romp and three bizarre animals
nicking jewels in Eiec tronic Zoo's Day-
light Robbery. Now US Gold have
joined in with the light-fingered duo.
The Bonanza Bruvs. What has the
world come to, eh7 All these sick,
twisted, commie pinkn software
houses encouraging our children to
steal and commune with $$&n, and
listen to loud rock music and not
wear ties and smart shoes. _
They're luring the youth of
today to bathe in the fire and brim-
stone of Hades- Corrupting the inno-
cent wide-eyed teenagers with their
promises of digital violence and pixe-
lated titration. Still, it's a larf. innit7
And Bonanza Bruvs is one helluva larf.
But before we get too deeply
embroiled in the up* and downs of the
garneptay. let's take time out to have a
mug of steaming Bovnl and check out
the plot for this festival of thievery.
The two brothers, RobO and MobO.
have just grven up their life of crime
Very sensible of them. But of course,
things don't stay that way for long.
They are contacted by a
sponky Mr Big-type
bloke who asks
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them to do some jobs for him. OK. so
it's exactly the same plot as Hudson
HawK but this Mr Big actually wants
our heroes to rob his own buildings,
No. he's not trying to fiddie the
insurance, but ne wants the world's
best burglars to test his security systems
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for him. Cunning, en? Thus, the orange
twosome are ordered to retrieve a set
number of objects from all of Mr Big s
buildings. They must use all of their skill
to avoid or stun the guards, dogs and
security systems.
Once all the objects in a building are
nabbed by either or both of the broth-
ers, the exit opens and you can leg it to
the roof to nab a lift from your
Bonanza Blimp on to the next level.
So, that's the basic idea of the
game, but how well does it
work? Very well actually,
The graphics are small,
because the screen is split
in two for the two players,
but there are plenty of nice little details
to watch out for, They've even man-
aged to keep the /ay traced feel to the
sprites from the arcade.
The sound isn't quite as good as it
could have been, with a fairly crap
tune and few FX, but what really
counts is gameplay and Bonanza Broth-
ers has got it where it matters. The rela-
tively simple idea means that it's easy to
get into and soon you'll be sneaking
around like an expert tea leaf.
With two players, the action really
hots up as you race against your mate
to collect more objects.
An added element of strategy comes
in when you get knocked over by a
guard. As you sit on your bum, all the
objects you pilfered are scattered about
you and an unscrupulous partner can
nip in and steal them for his or her
own ends.
So before you start re's always best
to check that your so-called "mate" is
really on your side, or you could be left
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bonus points. So. do it to them before
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groovy game. The run-arcund-and-cc*-
lect-things formula is fairly old hat
these days but the two-player option
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ordinary, give tne Bruvs a go.
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| limey. What a dodgy concept.
eh7 A game where you have
r to throw petrol bombs
through the window of MacDon3lds to
win. Very ideologically unsound. Still.
daft what you must have to do. tn efte
why would they tall the game Diner
Blaster?
What? Oh. it's Dyna Blaster. So no
MacDonaids then? No petrol bombs?
Thank goodness For that. Mind you. it
still involves a rather unhealthy obses-
sion with exploding devices. And Killing
your friends. Bui hey. Ift all For enter-
lainment-
The basic concept behind Dyna
Blaster is a simple one. Votive got to run
around a maze. Wowing your way
through the walls and trying to kill the
other players. .Also out for your blood
are seme squishy alien things who stop
yo u from just hiding in a corner until its
all over.
Along the way you can collect power-
ups to give you more tomb* and bigger
explosions, and even mystery bonuses
that can either help or hinder you,
depending on how lucky you are. Uke I
said, simple but bloody good fun.
Mow if you're the sort of person who
has no friends at all, Dyna Blaster nay
not be quite a* appealing. You see. for
the best effect, pu really need as many
players as possible. The game comes
with a special dongle that plugs into
your serial port. As well as acting as
copy protection. * also allows an extra
two joysticks to be plugged in.
Add another player on the keyboard
and you've got simultaneous five player
mayhem- On your own though, you
have to play the computer and it's just
not the same. Serves you right for
being unpopular. Ha ha ha ha Ahem
Before getting into all the wanton
violence and exploding people, you
must define the terms of victory. For
instance, if you want a quick game
then the first player to win a round is
the overall champion. If you want a
more prolonged contest then the first
one to score five victories is the overall
champ.
So with that relatively easy choice
out of the way its into the game
proper. And blimey- l» a cortt£r t ^ na
Blaster is just one of those games that
grabs you by the trousers and forces
you to play it over and over again.
Friendships are shattered into pieces
as previously civilised human beings
wrench their joysticks into unnatural
shapes and howl obscenities at e^ch
other. Some will choose to keep them-
selves to themselves and try and stay
alive that way. others will charge
g^^iJQfeHl ^^^
„ ^MU. J.** I— »« « ■"**»* ■*""
Home hf B*mtt* Price? «•"«■«. app**""*
around the screen dropping bombs
everywhere and generally scaring the
more timid players,
In short, it's an incredibly involving
game Id even go as far as to say that
this is the sort of game that you could
suggest playing at a party and not get
beaten up by your mates.
■Hey everyone, let's play on my com-
puter!'
"Shut up you bonng get. Nobody plays
on computers an parties."
"But rve got Dyna Blasted"
"Oh right. Me first."
■Sod off, that's the' best joystick!"
-How come I always end up using the
keyboard?"
■Aaaargih,yougotme.'
■Get the one in red. He's got the biggest
explosions.'
-Why isn't my joystick workingf
And so on. It really is a communal
sort of game. Just don't play it with any-
one who's bigger than you. or you II
probably get beaten up Quite a lot,
The graphics are smooth and quite
cartoony with your little bomber men
looking for all the world like Lego men
in space helmets. The sound consists of
a bouncy rune and - absolutely essential
in this game -beefy explosions.
in the end though, it's playabiiity that
counts, and Dyna Blaster has got so
much playabiiity it s got huge crates of
the stuff Riling up giant warehouses. If
playabiiity was loaves of bread, then
pyna Blaster would be vVarburtons.
Bribe them, beg them, sell them your
family but somehow get your mates
round with some joysticks and revel in
the sneer gorgeousness that is Dyna
Blaster,
Daniel
,>--^ii«Mll^wl
. u „>. colourful iprfta bt* 1 "»tb
varied %iw taps* in muW-pUyer
e wouldn't lww 9ww "n* 55 -
A niSblt tune, **!*«**
jnn»rtani enptowsri n '
idd "oomph" to *w 9
f* LAV A B ILjTY
GCJAG
SOfKtilMS R« out of five just i*n \
erwujn- s»3)« flair" 4 "** ** d *
uh neglected, though.
M*Y im
Speed Demon
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■-MKHOR ■ £25.99 ■ l h meg ■ Mouse/joystick ■ Out now
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E™, can somebody IcN mr
why there ii a Idrge ball of
llamc i lining from my tar?
\fer engine i blown up, you
pillock! - Ed]
Tilt r*t ultt icrt«n mowing
your opponent! rtluKl and
ycun, including thr
boil lap tiniE
ve never really liked driving
games, but maybe thaft because
the onfy ones that I've had a go
■ been utter tripe with jerky
rues and awful contrors. However.
: do you think htM transpired/ Yes. 1
i honestly say that IVe seen the light.
Yhjorn has to be the coolest bestest
sled fun I have had in many a
nnia, The most notable features
smooth and ultra-fast graphics
realist!*: sounds. As you hurtle
id the sir, available circuits, the
sound changes pitch with each
■ change and acceleration and, with
Ce. the sound of the engine will
you when to change gear without
wig to loo*, at the rev counter.
Even the engine sounds from the
wr cars rise in pitch as you approach,
' fall m you leave them standing.
ere are tunnels to whizz through on
■our manic way to victory, which pro-
ce a whooshing sound as you go
fcrough them, and of course there is
r* "nevrtabie ciangl as you mistime a
■am or crash into some Sunday driver,
rs not all about keeping on the track
"ougn - for instance, you'll have to
- - • \:i:n your tyres should you be too
tten on leaving the tarmac to say heflo
diy oncoming tracksfde objects.
Each crash will diminish their perfor-
mance and gripping ability, making
f*»e tight turns a nightmare. You also
■•we to keep an eye on your fuel
level. To help you with all these prob-
lems there's a friendly nergnbourriood
pit stop. Here you can refuel and
replace worn tyres to improve your
chances of attaining that number one
position. You must also be carefuJ
about putting too much strain on the
engine, Too many revs or changing
down to a lower gear too quickly and
the engine will decrease in performance
and will eventually blow up.
The control system rs pure delight.
You can use either a mouse o* joystick
to weave your way around the unck,
^^B
Hear the wind whittle as you (cream
through the tunrwfe
Four oaNcni of unleaded pteai* and
make it snappy, I'm in hind of a hurry!
On the grid, right sV the bark due Id a poor performance on my part during i
qualifying Jap
and very smooth it ii too. You w l
see the hands on the steering wheel
and the front wheels of the racer move
in relation to your turns.
Changing gears is pretty slick too.
i joystick plugged in, you drop
down a gear by pulling back and press-
ing the Ffre button. AlemauVety,
mouse the teft and right buttons act as
up and down gear changes. Pushing
forwards on the moose or joystick
increases acceleration.
If you find gear changes too trWcy,
you have the option of selecting auto-
matic gear changes,, but this spoils the
fun <i little r think. There a a training
mode for you to use for practicing and
memorising eacn track, but the ultimate
test of your driving skill comes in the rac-
ing mode. Here you may enter your
name and you are then given a list of
the other drivers, in the Grand Prix
The mam race is preceded hy a quali-
fying session which will determine your
starting position depending on how
well you did- fou can even save your
progress by pressing the function keys,
Yes, i have to admit, I've been con-
verted into a driving freak, I must rush
out and apply for a Formula I driving
licence straight away. If you like the fast
lane, then this racey number is for you
Darren
Excellent smooth and fast
graphics.
PLA.YABILJTV
ooooo
I could pity thii tW the
cows cuk home-
May 1991
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£25.99 ■ Vi meg - Mouse/Joystick - Out now
Kick Off 2
Kick OTf was the footie 9*™ that Hi the jtan-
h«h » when Kkk Off 1 wai (el loose "RO"
those adoring footle fans it was bound to be
an award winner. It may not have astounding
graphics, but the addiction and gameplay are
stupendous.
you tan change your teams kit to suit your
taste and you can play in the league or the
cup. The ball control system is very Intuitive
.11.
Thin game won best animation
award back in 1990- The
gameplay consisted of control-
ling Ate. the central character,
by various manipulations of
the joystick at critical
moments, The animation was
very impress! ve, not surprising
considering Don Blulh. ex-Dls-
ney animator, was responsible.
The sound was pretty cool
too, with lots of digitised
speech and effects. Some crit-
ics termed the game a joystick
controlled demo but I enjoyed
it. One friend of mine even
videotaped each portion of the
game so his nephew could
watch it, just like a cartoon.
tt was also one of the most
frustrating games I have ever
played, and two of my joy-
sticks became airborne, sailing
through the ether before
encountering my bedroom
wall, during a par-
ticularly long and |
frustrating playing
M«y 19*4
Overall
rating
a net very good - once you master it, that is -
and the ability to play set pieces from a foul,
along with variable cornei-kkhing tactic*,
make it the football fave of all fans,
match and there is a replay facility to view
those scorching goals.
Even the referees have their own personali-
ties. If you enjoy a spot of spherical, q«%%
leathery object manipulation, then *j £
this is the biz. HHHillW
Pipemania IfiF
I never could get into this game,
probably oeeause it is one of those
ache so much,
many points as possible by building
a continuous pipeline from randomly
offered pipe parts,
To confound matters, you have
the flooi to contend with whi
flaws through the pipes shortly af
. ■ j-i-,,. th.i> flnni hIK 3 m
you cannot remove it and if it spills
out of the er*rl of your pipeline, the
game ends.
something I lungi
ware shelf, but that isn t to say that I
this isn t any good. I m sure those [^_
with a taste for the odd puziJe will
find this absorbing, but
not me. Quirk, someone
pass the Anadir
rass WM
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Populous
This was one of my fave games wfcen tt was first released probably
There s nothing mare relaxing than having a quiet Sunday afternoon
to oneself while terrorising an entire populace, is there.
For those from other worlds who have not heard of this game it
created a whole new genre which was named God games There
we g, L a f w imita ors which appeared shortly afterwards rtaim-
"gX the ultimate God game, but Populous .til, reigned supreme
multiply. ..doing you f^Zt^Z^ en^my
with catastrophes like earthquakes and floods in an
nent god, As far as I'm concerned, this will always be a
It has taken control.
It owns their minds.
It imprisons their bodies.
It even absorbs the building!
It's,,
secret project is out of control at
*noq Corporation, the world's
leading biotecii research lab. The
building is in chaos. All employees
are either dead or zombies. The
security system is blasting away at
anything that moves*
D/Generation, a malevolent
disguise itself, has taken over. And it
is your task to destroy it
But first, you must find a way to
stay alive. Then, as your
understanding of this evil force
increases, you can take the fight to
the enemy. The tools you have are
sparse. Little more than ingenuity
Over 12*1 rmirm lined with trapv and surprises
OulMLiiuliiiLt ^rapliii [■ nvimiirnefll
lull V(iA gmphir; support
Sensational Atii motion
Stunning musical intra, and uiund effect;
Unliable for IBM Pi , Ami>;,i. Atari M
organism that uses virtual reality to and determination.
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INFOGRAMES * £25.99
hat a sensation
that Roger Rabbit
film was. Nat
since, ooh, Bedknobs
and Broomsticks had a
film so cleverty ml*** uwe
action with cartoons. Thor-
oughly enchanting. And wh,
a whopping P»* o* cia P the or ' 9 ''
nal Roger Rabbit game was. Abso-
>...._-■ <»iil times
^
spies a
giant
bot-
tle of
milk
t to infogrames iwu- —
■s he got any
better? Lett find" 1
But tint. The Plot. Roge
been left in charge of
.uddly Baby Herman
jatory canov
dairy and shuf-
fles off to get it, jtlil
like babies do all the time.
Unfortunately he leaves Roger
how to get out of each room and
eventually out of the hous<
i he wayward
.Vommv
to si,y« Roger U * ««** Wt wary of
this outcome. So rescuing the tot
jj top priority.
Well, first impressions. Mind
blowing actually. Ome you ve
that is. But that wee chore out of
You know all those fancy
adventures on the PC? Well, that*
exactly * "9 Hav< *
screens long with various o
and items lurking in the fan
scenery. AJi you have to do r.
figure out how to get Rog
or this scene and into the next.
An* usually, it involve
the sofa and thtough the
window over the door?
$o, don't think logically abo
thing] - remember It's Toe
and anything it possib
*t it looks gre
It It SOU'
U»ki likE the fish hasn't b**ft
fHf lor i white
n* mr B ie. Bss. pk^d ■» *■•* £*™«* — '"««* -
rum in i stfMioe Bwwlwi *«*it. And mty not?
tt \H ok who's here!
mm
only ■ Joystick » Out now
but how does it play? I dan t
think we need be reminded of
just how crap games with amaz-
ing graphic j tend to be, do we?
Oragon'i Lair? Space Ace? Nice to
look at but about ai playable M a
wingless guitar.
Thankfully, Roger doesn i suf
tte as badly as thou afore-
mentioned cock-up i. but even so
iot quite everything It
d ve been.
He trouble is that with so
>y sounds and ar
tip the fnemo:
few hours, but once you've got
each scene suised it becomes a
bit of a chore hairing to go
through the same routine every
time you play, just to get to a
new level.
The good point of the game,
besides the spanky presentation,
Is that It i Ideal for kids. It i the
same price as most other games,
rather than masquerading under
an inflated price tag to justify the
ind youngsters will be
: r, .<- II round bv it-
get In to,
so they should be able to proceed
too much help. Of
course, it does need a hard drive
to run which will put It out of
reach for a tot of people, but if
you do have a hard drive with a
spare 2Mb on it then this could
keep the i progs happy for a good
long while.
For the rest of us though, I
nice attempt. It looks and sounds
brilliant, it even plays quite well,
but at the end of the day there s
very Tittle substance to the game.
It does promise bigger and better
things from the Disney licence
though. One to show off with,
but not much else I'm afraid.
Oanicl
!rBMR *¥>McrtnKi!lciBd
sound effcrti.
O00##
Wif «'eBwih« lW j Mtfto
evfttfual suct«j.
Rabbit pops up to console a slightly battered Roger
A bit of toilet humour
May t?94
Borobodur - madeup name or wot?
BOROBODUR
THALAMUS ■ £25.99 ■ 7z meg ■ Joystick ■ Out now
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Where do they get these-
silly names tor games
from? Borohodur. It kind
of rolls off your tongue right onto the
Moor, doesn't it7 Anyhow, regardless of
the silly name, Borobodur is very similar
to Turrican and has a certain Shadow of
the Beast feel to it too,
At the start of the game you run
around, big gun in hand, shooting
everything that moves, but you also
have little puzzle elements where you
have to activate levers and other
objects
For instance, there is a wheel' with a
rope threaded through it that that is
attached to a door below. You have to
activate this wheel to open the door
allowing you to pass through. There are
also numerous levers to pull', and you
have to work out what they all do.
With the many nasties intent on
smashing your face in, there are also
power-up type objects to collect that
restore your energy and increase your
weapon power.
The objective is. to solve the level
whereby you get the message The exit
is open' or something along those lines,
You must tfien make your way to this
exit which takes you on to the next
level-
Level two is, to all intents and pur-
poses, a driving game. It has ad the feef
of games like Lotus Turbo, with undulat-
ing tracks and twisting comen.
The graphics in this part of the game
are quite fast and smooth, and you can
even blast opponents with your cannon
should [hey get in your way .
You are apparently not in a car, but
on what Jootcs like a Boating chair which
hovers above the track. You must collect
= p<tles !xit your jaw
iworii lilt the floor at tfw
sight d Ihem
A U O I O
G G
Rjther good soundtrark ji you
, . witn irraocKiianging
tunes as you pfognsi
PLAVABILITV
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a*e playable *wh its mi* of pwr-
zle salving and bating the ttzp
out of tfieanit.1.
would you M taking a rt*p b*ek, rImm? v«« breath dium
fuel and other objects dotted along the
track as you drive along, to aid you later
on. There is also a boost function avail-
able which, on pressing the spacebar,
sends you hurtling around the track at
breakneck speed,
Later level's take pJace in some kind
of underground area where you must
solve puHtei to progress further. Thene
is an obscure p#ete of rock that you can
move, but I couldn't figure out what to
do with at all. Maybe that's because I'm
crap at this sort of game.
The sound is quite good with a con-
stant background theme tune playing
as you kick Putt.
The theme music changes in mood
as you go from JeveS to level which adds
3 certain amount of atmosphere.
The graphics are nothing to write
home about, but they are OK and the
animation and scrolling are quite
smooth too, The game comes on three
disks and there's an optional intro.
There is also a rather cool Terminator-
type opening sequence, with the letters
of the rjtte scrolling across the screen to
a snaziy tune,
I quite enjoyed playing Borobodur,
even though it's nothing new or innova-
tive,, so i thrnk those of you who like Tur-
ned n should take a look at it.
Darren
Hug thoie ranter! and Matt anyone who
gels In your way
Ooaoonfi what a creepy pi**- 1 wonder
what mil movable rock hi for?
Excuse ore, could you tell me the way to
gel oH this h™el please?
May 1 991!
I wondcf what this powef-up Will doT I
think I'll pick il up W*n beat the crap out
or that wimpy looking robot down below
iHy.
. rj-ial l a rather large la«r bolt that I about to hit m ph*™rt POOF!
Id change your bartwf If I wen you, matey!
Pair t h
at the alphabet fair
P^r^^^H
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Tell the time and watch
the clock corns alive!
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Guide the frog from log
to log to solve the sums
Correct spelling, grammar
and punctuation mistakes
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Dan's selections
Operation Thunderbolt
THE HIT SQUAD - £7.99
To he honest I was
never a big fan of this
Oppo Wolf sequel
when it tint came out.
There always itemed
to be too much going on, and the fact that you ted to pick up (he gurnlght to
where to fire rjidn t help matters.
Thankfully, time has metluwed me a bit and I actually
round myself getting quite into this old chestnut. It $ still
almost frlghteningly difficult to progress any further than
level three, but the thunderous sound effects and the pol-
ished graphics go together to create a slick exercise in
designer violence.
Perhaps loo hard for Its own good, but at under a tenner
it s perfect for relieving those violent outbursts
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Mystical
ACTION SIXTEEN ■ £9.99
What is II about ¥TS trainee magicians, eh?
They always cock up In a major league
way. Via some unforeseen magical boo-boo,
this one managed to scatter his masters
potions and scroll! all over the shop.
What a« this boils down to Is a vertically scrolling shoot- em-up, albeit one with brilliant «
lw3 n graphics, Each time you pick up a soon or potion you can either stick it in your pouch or u*
it yourteW to give you a new kind of weapon. And a mate can Join in
as » Golem and can leap around squashing enemies while you get on
with coM*ct(n* potions. Again, ft s very entertaining.
Th* main problem is that once you ve got over the novelty of all
the weird effects of your spells, it s jurt another shoot-em-u*. At a
budget price you could do a lot worse, but lis not (hat anwing In
the long term.
Toyota Celica GT Rally
GBH ■ £7.99
A crumbly old driving ilm from
1 490, this one. And It's a bit of an
embarrassment as well, seeing as
it s from Gremlin You'd think that
or all people Gremlin could pro-
duce a stonking rally game. Unfortunately, not in this case.
In my humble opinion, GT R*% is terminally crap. There i no illu-
sion of speed at all and trying to keep the car going in a straight line
is like trying to gel hold of the soap in the bath. Even though there
are realistic features like windscreen wipers, they put you off more
than anything and tend to obscure your vision.
Poor controls and a complete lack of any sense of competition
make this one of the worst driving games I ve seen- It may be cheap
but irs also fairly nasty. Avoid.
OBBLE
"ioSSSff
This is mow like it. This is what budget
re-reteases should be about. Classic
games for pocket money prices, And
believe you me, Bubble Bobble is a
bloody classic and a half.
From this one game came every single cute platform game ever
Its eartlterrt. Even though Its since been overshadowed by its
more famous sequel. Rainbow Islands (also dire out on
budget soorsl, it s still one of the finest platform games In the uni-
verse-
Best with two players, this Is a simple and effective game that
no self-respecting games player should be without. At this price
its the bargain of the century. Snap it up. Nuff said.
Bubble Bobble
THE HIT SQUAD • £7.99
III.
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Daz's selections
F-16 Combat Pilot
ACTION SIXTEEN ■ £9.99
*h,js game won the belt flight sim
*ward hack in H90, but it is more of
t ;rtoot- em up thin an attempt at a
realistic representation of a fighter
aircraft. The game feature! five mis-
s.om If vou successfully replete each mission, you have the option of attempting the
Seg" cal^Tgn in which you ha« to destroy a major part of the enemy illation, an.
aircraft in order to forte him to surrender.
The necessity to complete ■» five missions before you are
jliowed 10 attempt the campaign mlji»n makes Combat Pilot
j re addictive, unlike some other flight sim J which are just a
series of unconnected battles. The graphics are quite good and
the speed at which they move Is good too.
There is also the option of playing against a friend In a head-to-
head confrontation, using a null modem cable. » cant remember
why I dkln t buy this when it first came out - it's rather spiffing,
i_rw» TIM* oe>ii.o<
ISCflT TIM* i--.«
Combo Racer
GBH ■ £7.99
Iff time to strap an the leather lower] and step
into an odd looking motorbike that requires
another person on trie bach for balance because
its crap at going round comers.
Now I'm not really heen on driving games, . Th _
J , * have to admit I rather liked Combo Racer, the sidecar racing game from Gremlin. The
^effects are better tlum average - for stance, a, you enter a tunnel the engine no.se
echoes around as you pass through. The graphics are OK, but
the motion of the track coi*ld have been a little smoother.
There is a two^layer option which involves a friend acting as
the guy on the back making sure you tfont Hip ** you jfam
the bike round those tight corners.
There are eight tracks for you to race ground and if that
isn't enough, there s a built-in track editor so you can design
your own A decent buy.
Venus the Flytrap
GBH ■ £7.99
i attempt to restore the ecological balance
wiping out the entire insect population,
i tists decided to create a race of robotic
Kti. Only they kind of buggered up the
DMA and now these insect* haw turned Into a
swann of psychopathic killers, Intent on destroying ail life
Hlanfty s «r!y hope is to create the bane of all swam* of psychopathic kilters, Venus the Fly-
trap - a robot designed to seek out and destroy the rogue Insects.
The graphics in vTF ue slick with good animation and sound,
objective Is to hill everything that moves and you have lots of
weapons to cotiect to help you on your merry way. These weapons
range from mortars to four-way shots.
There are lots of bonuses to collect, such as eittra time and
shields, antf you will need to use them wisely to overcome the
hordes of different insects intent on destroying you.
Yet another good value for money game from GBH
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THE HIT SQUAD ■ £7-99
This game seemed to take longer than average
to toad, and considering Id not seen it before, I
presumed It was because the animation
was going to be quite good. How wron-
I was! I've seen better animation from a
^^s are not even wefl drawn. They look not too disbar to those you find on a
The garmrpiay is. er, missing completely and I person** don* think Wt worth E7.W.
The plot centres around the fart that you are on you way to meet
your girlfriend, but the route to her is not enactty free of trouble. You
step off the train and set off on your way only to find every thug and
villain In the entire universe has decided to congregate on the very
streets that lie between yoti and your girl.
There had to be one bad apple in the bunch, and they don t come
much worse than this. *ou could find better games written in Has*,
so avoid this like the plague.
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Ultimate Golf
GBH GOLD ■ £9.99
»fc golf game first teed off in 1 989 - you II prob-
*xy remember that it was called 1 Greg Norman s
•ornate Golf way back then,
it was meant to be (he most accurate golf sim-
tfation yet, a golf game to seriously challenge
»* superlative Leaderboard. Features included practice, matchplay and strokeplay, and ecu-
•ltd with the various ball effect variables such as weather and wind. It really was the golf
game of that time.
Unfortunately, Ultimate Golf hasn't matured with age - fit
tact it looks quite sad when compared to modem day golf
fanes such as Mkroprose Golf. Graphically it i not bad, but
- i not that playable.
If you fancy a trip down Memory Lane and you're a bit
atort of the c*fd wonga, then Ultimate Golf might be worth a
fo od look.
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The world s greatest underwater agent Is back, and this
time he'll cost you a mere US') What a bargain! You
are a little fishy, the underwater kingdom's answer to
Roger Moore,
You have twelve missions to complete. The first Is to
free the lobsters using keys tfiat ate dotted around the playing area, The game has wonder-
ful graphics, stunning animation and great sound, and more importantly the payability Is
fantastic.
There aren't really enough words to describe how good
James Pond actually Is - well there are, it i just that I haven't
got enough space to write them all down. One of the greatest
games released in 1 990 and ft still hasnt hut any of its charac-
ter two years later.
If you've got Hobocod (the sequel (o James Pond} and
haven't got James Pond then I order you to go out and buy
this immediately without any delay. A great game.
-fc=*GiQ£WL^
Voodoo Nightmare
GBH ■ £7.99
You take on the role of Boots Barker
in his perilous attempt to escape the
jungles of darkest Africa.
The game is set In the 3D isomet-
ric mould. 1 have now read the
instructions five times and I still can t work out what to do. Air I know Is thai you have to
find some magic pins that have pierced a voodoo doll.
How you get these pins I haven't a ciue - I ran around for ages, could n t find anything of
interest and then turned the computer off. The only thing I did
notice was that the jungle had some very dangerous animals
living in it.
The graphics aren't that bad. but the game itself is quite
frustrating ar»t involves a lot of aimless wandering around-
Overall, Voodoo Nightmare should only be bought if you re Suf-
fering from budget! lis and simply have to have every single ,
budget game out.
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£9.99
Graced with strength and bravery, our
hero Sir Fred won the heart of a beautiful 1
damsel (the lucky bugger). In doing so he
brought on the wrath of the evil dwarf
Uttimor who got really angry and out of
spite turned Fred Into a vulnerable dwarf. In his quest to break the evil curse. Sir Fred must
go and find Ultimor to beat the crap out of him.
The graphics in Sir Fred are quite amazing. There are wonderful backdrops, great anima-
tion and it all left me quite speechless. I cant seem to remem-
ber this game when it first came out, so i was well impressed
when I loaded it up for the first time. It has a enjoyable little
intro and some of the enemies are really quite cute, especially
the tiny gnome with a swinging mace.
Sir Fred is an enjoyable little romp around and is well worth
a Jook at. J liked it, and so will you unless you don't like
gnomes.
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ntwinbini comer with a iiandy til nk parked to the rear...
It's been a long time since my buck
was swashed, I ran tell you. Yes
indeed, missus. In fact J think it's
tale to say that the last game that even
made my swash feel remotely bucked
up was Monkey Island. And that was
ages and ages ago.
So as you can imagine, my swash
and buckle were bath reeling a little bit
down m the dumps. I tried to cheer
them up. rknow, get them swashmg
and bucking again. I watched all the
Indiana Jones films, I even watched
loads of those stupid black-and-white
cliff-hanger Republic senals, but to no
avail. My swash was. all bucked out and
my buck was swashless,
So it was a great boost to my ailing
adrenalin glands to receive Heart of
China. My swash and buckle perked
right up. You See, Heart of China is set
in Bhe 1 930s. And it's all about rescuing
3 damsel in distress from a ruthless war-
lord, And it's got ninjss. And tanks,
planes and trains, And all the characters
are digitised from real life actors.
And For once, it's a game that's as
good as it sounds. Swashbuckling and
buckles washing all over the place, I
promise you.
It all starts when the ever-lovely
Nurse Kate Lorna* is kidnapped while
Excrtement and adventure to take away
DYNAMIX ■ £34.99 ■ 1 meg ■ Mouse ■ Out now
doing lots of great work for charidee,
by fiendish and thoroughly booworthy
warlord b Deng. Kate's dad and afl-
round beastfy property baron, one Mr
Eugene AdoJphous Lomax IN, gets a bit
narked by this and so decides to force
'Lucky" Jake Masters to rescue her.
Jake's our hero, a down-oohis-luck
fly boy. and he also owes Eugene
loads of dosh. And just to make sure
that Jake doesn't refuse this mission,
Eugene blows up Jake's house boat.
Fair enough.
Thus. Jake Finds himself scouring the
streets and bars of Hong Kong for the
fast remaining nmja master, Zhao Chi.
Only Chi can guide Jake to Li Deng's
fortress, and besides, it's always handy
to hsve a ninja close to hand in a
Well, therei *
novel way oi
limbing into
a Portrcii
scrap, And here we must jump Into
Jake's shoes and find the ninja, rescue
the dame, kill the bad guys and survive
till the end credits.
The action is controlled in true
graphic adventure-style, by using the
mouse pointer to explore your sur-
roundings and select various actions.
And the interface used in Heart of China
is excellent Although at first glance it
seems a bit daunting, and unfortunately
the manual doesn't make it sound any
easier, you soon get the hang of it.
The good thing about this all-new
control system is that it allows you to
check out each location just by moving
the pointer over anything that lookj
interesting., and so you can immediatefy
get an idea of what options are open to
you, This is because as the pointer
moves over something of note, the
pointer changes to Show you what you
can do with it. So over a person it
becomes a speech icon, over a door rt
becomes an exit sign and so on. It
means that you'll never be sitting
around wondering which things you
can interact with and which are
scenery, Which is rather nice isn't IT?
And for all the complete thickies
out there in Complete Thicfcfeland the
manual rather helpfully contains a
step by step guide to the Erst few
puzzles and tasks, including how to
find Chi and convince him to join
you.
This should - help even the most
cluefess player get the hang of things
and set Off on their own, and of
course, for the clever-dicks, you can
just try it without any help, And you
deserve everything you get. Smarty
boots.
So, thrs Heart of China lark, what's
it like, eh? Well, unless you're blind -
in which case you'll probably have
Haw hat Chi managed to conceal a grappling hook in hii
Jiinja pyjamas? Truit me, you don't want to know**
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*»•>? ba nnarr, give me «vef al large flagons of your finest boorc pleait
double reading this anyway - you'll
fready have noticed that there's a
topping Gamer Gold plastered
jmewhere around here. And that
■glut give you a flue as to what I
; of this game, J like it, in case you
idn't guessed.
The graphics are stunning, Lush,
otoyrful backgrounds are populated
digitised acton, who have been
SOuched to they blend In with the
tekgrouncfs - even if Jake still hears
an uncanny resemblance to Kurt Rus-
This inspired blending of real people
inri hi-res backgrounds gives the
; game a wonderfully rich feef, and adds
no end to the all-important atmosphere.
To add to tfte sheer glossiness of it
all, a lot of the scenes are animated
with people walking about and so on,
which takes this from being your stan-
dard 'cJicking on a pretty picture-
adventure to being an 'interactive
movie-type experience sort of thing". A
big thumbs up for the way the game
Joe* J, then.
Soundwise, you gel plenty of orien-
tal mood music, although sound effects
are fairly thin on the ground. Ulti-
mately, the music is just there to give
your ears something to do. and it helps
to cement the atmosphere already cre-
ated by the graphics. And let's face it if
you did have loads of FX the game
would probably just slow down to a
crawl, and nobody wants that, now do
we?
In the end though, it's the variety
that keeps you giwed. Even once- you've
rescued Kate, that's only part of the
game, You'll have to go on to adven-
tures in Istanbul, Katmandu and even
on the Orient Express before your quest
is compJeted.
At least if the manual's to be
believed Piusi There are arcade
sequences, including a tank simulation
and a fist fight on top of a speeding,
train. Blimey. Thanfc God for the Save
Game feature, eh?
Now, put on your serious hats while
we try and find something to moan
about lOurtk head scratching session),
OK, the biggest grumble I can come up
with is that the whole caboodle comes
on a mammoth nrne disks. Nine disks!
Yckj can play ft from floppy, but be
prepared to swap untH you're blue In
the wrist. Hard drive installation ii best
as it speeds things right up, but then
not everybody has a hard drive do
they?
So, the price for such a huge game is
that the box weighs a ton due to the
piles of disks inside. And you'll probably
spend more time swapping disks than
playing the game if you aren't blessed
with a hard drive.
Ail in all. Heart of China is one hel-
luva game, it's big beyond the bound-
aries of conventional bigness and it
fctow. who would live in a house
Mr this? [Er, it's Li Deng actually
Uoyd Gre»man|
Jake Masters!
You dirty little
peeping torn...
looks and plays like a rather wonderful
dream. A definite 'must buy' for hard
drive owners, and a worthwhile pur-
chase for the more patient floppy drive
users. Get out there and swash with
your buckle until it drops off.
Daniel
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February 199! GAMEft
HMV
8:
ELSPA Chart
Fourteen new entries this 1
month, five climbers, ten
games fait and there is one
mysterious non-mover. This is
actually Formula One Grand
Prix and it remains in pole
position.
A big shock this month was
Populous 2 falling an enor-
mous i& places from number
six to number 24, The reason
for this drastic drop is the
plethora of new budget games
released, I told you never to
feed them after midnight, and
look at them, all 33 of them,
It's disgraceful! Come on you
Amiga owners - get those
well-earned readies spent w
some decent games.
This even caused my excel-
lent tip for the top, Another
World, to not even enter the
top 30. I believe it's hanging
around at the 40 mark, but it's
still my tip for the number one
spot.
Good news for all you flight
sim Tans - A320 Airbus has
landed the number six spot
and our stewardess-loving
news editor John Butters
firmly predicts that it'll be num-
ber one next month. Hmm. we
shafl,
According to several chart
sources, Harlequin and Aban-
doned Plates are doing well in
the lower half of the top 100
and are almost certain to be in
the top 30 next month.
That's all we have time for,
but next month well be show-
ing you how to make an egg
rack out of a couple of yoghurt
pots and a banana shin, and
talking about what's going up
and down in the worfd of
Amiga games Bye. See ya
readers!
Jonathan
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Van Helling Sure MOWS how TO make an impression
J
t cant be easy being a vam-
pire. Bad breath, pasty com-
plexion, and you keep biting
• our tongue. And just think of
~ow hard it must be to get a date.
Have you ever tried chatting tip s
hen your eyes keep glowing
j.jt red? It j impossible. You
cm'l even get on Blind Date,
•nagine it...
Gormless bimbette (reading
questions off cue card]: Number
two, if you invited me round for
-inch, what would we eat and
■hy?
Vampire: Er, well I'd probably
-He you on the neck and suck all
(ho blood out of your body, actu-
ally, (Audience laugh until their
onsilr bleed, Cilia grins sicken-
mgly, LvVT com miss ton yet another
?ries, mass suicides en we}.
It just won't work will it? So
hat can a lonely vamp do on a
weekend, eh? Well, of Dracula
-eems to have got the right idea-
Rather than popping down to
:ne youth club disco and trying to
wangle a salt and vinegar
red snog behind the church
he's decided to make all the
A the village fancy him.
And how does he do this? Does
he send off for one of those Make
ourielf Dead Sexy, Honest
s from dodgy magazines? Of
e not! He stalks through the
tight, chomps the babes on the
neck and turns them into the
Slides of Dracula {dan dan dlddly
laaaaaan}.
Naturally, the villagers are a bit
narked by this spate of babe thiev-
ery, and along comes Van Helsing.
or Transit to his friends, Is
the world's best vampire killer.
He's probably the world s only
bloody vampire killer, but never-
theless, he s very good at it. Unfor-
tunately, ne's managed to scatter
his vampire killing kit all across
the village (pretty careless, I
thought) and so he must find ail
his bits and pieces before he can
nail Drac.
So the race is on - Dracula try-
ing to capture ail the luscious
young ladies in the village, and
Transit' Van Helsing trying to
remember where he's left ail his
tools of the trade. Arcade adven-
ture time, I guess,
It's a two-player affair, where
you each control one of the pro-
tagonists. Now in principle this it
a great idea, especially if you get
to play Dracula, 'cos you get to
chase buxom maidens and stuff.
Even so, Iff basically a run around
and collect things game, And it's
not a very good one either,
This game first appeared on the.
Oh dear, Drac gel i ■»
Jsir-nver-enrhuTiimir
with one of the
young ladies
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cough, ST way back in 1991- And
rather unfortunately for us, there j
a quote from a certain sister maga-
zine of ours, Atari ST User, on the
box. A whopping 92 per cent It
claims. Oh dear.
Maybe it was radically different
on the ST, but if it was anything
at all like this then the reviewer
was either blind, »r very, very
drank.
So, Brides of Dracula, prepare
yourself for a slagging off of
Olympic magnitude. First up, the
graphics are tiny and their move-
ment Is stilted, so trying to jump
over a moving enemy it pretty
damn impossible. This doesn't
help the gameplay any, and that s
a pity cos it needs all the help it
can get.
The basic idea is a tried and
tested one, but it's spoiled by the
thoughtless way that each object,
be it woman or weapon, must be
taken back to your starting point
before you can collect another. So
Drac pauses For
thought in hi:
cat tie, while Van
Willing find! one
of the potential
liml,-.
back and forth and back and
forth you go, until one of you
runs out of energy. Wowee.
Unimaginative sound and fairly
lame graphics are just the final
nails in this game's coffin, Cute
idea, but it I neither scary or
funny. They might have got away
with it if the game had consisted
of more than just going through
the same screens over and over
again, but as it is I don t think
that this game's likely to rise from
the dead too often. Ho ho ho, I'm
a right joker me.
Daniel
Some QK-ish backgrounds but
sprite control Is «*• dodjy.
k great idea, but badly
implemented.
Oim auditions for Michael Jackson 1 Thriller, But Van Helling has popped up m IIW30*
of the Beast, fa; some reason
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ELVIRA
FLAIR ■ £25.99 ■ \ meg ■ Joystick ■ Out now
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Wahey, Elvira's hack [and
front, ooeri and tfus &me
you get Co control the
well-proportioned beauty around three
levels of arcade fun. You may well
remember Elvira's first computer game
appearance a couple of years ago and
you may also remember it was an
adventure role-playing game that
played rather Pihe Dungeon Master.
What did help the game to become
immensely popular was, errr, urrimm,
Elvira's large chest (I'm not a man to
beat around the bush). This important
factor, which sold the first game, is also
badt.
For all the hearty fulfblooded mates
out there It's good news, but for all you
feminists it's decidedly bad news. You
have to admit that iF it wasn't for Elvira,
the first game wouldve more than likely
bombed.
Sex sells games, Take Leisure Suit
Uny for example - even way back in
the depths of time when Barbarian first
came out, Maria whittaker's ample
bosoms made the game a top seiJer.
Anyway, enough of this tittle tattle
chictle chattle, on with the review Elvira
was asleep in her home when an
almighty storm blew up. rain lashed
down upon her house and lightning lit
up the sky. The storm was enough to
awaken even the dead and that Is
exactly what it did.
Elvira woke with a staa and at the
bottom of her bed was a ghostly figure
dressed in a highly reqai robe. To cut a
long story short, this ghostly dude was
apparently the King of Transylvania and
he said that Elvira could have his castle.
There is only one snag - our busty
buxom beauty has to conquer two hos-
tile environments, Arctic Earth and
Underworld of Fire, and then conquer
[he castle itself.
Elvira - The Arcade Game is, you've
guessed it, a platform game, Elvira has
to walk around collecting spells, runes
and weapons to help her conquer the
worlds. Also there ^e all manner of
beas&es trying to stop our heroine from
completing her tasks, Despite having,
erm, an ample chest. Elvira is really
quite nimble - she can jump from plat-
form to platform wfth the greatest of
ease.
Elvira can also use some spells to
good effect. Some give her energy
back, while others allow her to walk
over hot molten Java and other such
improbables.
You encounter an ancient trader in
each of the three worids. The trader has
the ability to trade a spell that you have
collected for one that he has in his cot-
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mation to help you solve the quest. The
trader can be visited as many times as
you rike.
Time to wrap up the review,
methinks. The first, well CX the second
thing you notice about Elvira is the
graphics, They're a-mazingr One of the
most impressive bits is the ice world - it
actually snows, I know it doesn't sound
good on paper, but you realty have- to
see it to believe it. There is also a nice lit-
tle intro featuring some digitised pics of
the lady herself.
Soundwise, there is an average little
tune and the sound effects are nothing
to write home to mother about. The '
game plays alright, but sometimes you
get beasties leaping out at you from
nowhere and it can be a little frustrat-
ing, It's quite difficult but you get nine
lives to play around with. There is a puz-
zle aspect to the game, but most of
these can be worked out easily,
If you are into large-chested, heavy
metal-laving women then this game Is
definitely for you. For the rest of us
tesser mortais, you're better off finding
something etee.
Jonathan
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The story is based upon ancient
legend. A warrior prince, slaughtered
on the battlefield of the Shadow lands, awakes
to find that his spirit lives on and that he can
control the minds and actions of his subjects.
Seeking retribution f he chooses four loyal
adventurers and guides them back into the
Shadowlands on a journey of discovery and
vengeance,
• The revolutionary new Photoscape TM
lighting system casts atmospheric light and
shadow over the gameworld.
• Fight to the death using an array of
weapons and spells against hordes of
grotesque and intelligent adversaries.
• A multitude of devious traps and
perplexing puzzles tax your skill,, intelligence
and dexterity.
• User definable characters are controlled
independently or in groups.
• In-game hints are always available (for
a price) if you need them.
The friendly and intuitive mouse-driven
control system gives access to the largest,
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It's an enormous challenge - but one you
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Whether you're an expert or new to the genre,
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***l into your oponent s endzone.
' really it a bit complicated to
npUin the ruies, so Hi be bask.
At the start of the game, some-
»w hicks off and the team receive
"? ball. Then they run with the
mi trying to get it in the endzone.
' they a?e tackled then it is a first
own. The team has four downs to
*n 10 yards - if they are success-
id then it is another first down. So
■t prog re lie j until you get into
he endzone and score a
touchdown, the offensive
team can move up the field
by throwing the
football to one
of the receivers, Alternatively the
quarterback - (he guy who bungs
the ball and generally controls
play - can hand the bail to one of
the running backs, who will try to
leg it m Tar as he can,
Mow this sounds ail fun and
games, but there it the small mat-
ter of the defensive
team. Their job it
to get the ball off
you. Now these
guys aren t softies
and will more than
iike'y break your legs just to get
the ball. They can intercept the
ball or claim it if rt is fumbled,
but they can't steal it out of
your arms-
After you have scored a touch-
down and gained si* points, there
is an opportunity to kick a FieicJ-
goai for an extra point. This
entails booting the tall over the
post, just like they do in rugby.
There are of course leads more
rules and regulations, hut I haven't
got enough space to tell you them
all. If you buy John Madden s Foot-
ball have a look inside the manual,
all will be revealed and then you li
be able to find out what Mick Luck-
hurst was babbling on about.
Now on to the game. It starts
with a funky tune and a nice
graphic*! introduction - it even
features one of those American
commentators who introduces you
to the game-
Once past the copy protection,
it's time to select what type of
game you want to play. You can
play a regular game with two of
your favourite teams or you can
start a playoff series where you
choose your team and you play
until you get knocked out or until
you win the Superbowi.
You can play on joystick or key-
board, against the computer or a
friend. There are other choices to
be made, like whether you want
to play indoors, or outdoors in
the rain - you can even play in
the snow, Once you've selected all
your options, it's time to kick off.
Curing the game, you have to
select plays. These determine
whether you are to kick, throw or
pasj the ball, or whether you are
to launch a full-scale attack on
your opponents. They can be a lit-
tle confusing at first, but the
more you play the more you learn.
Overall, John Madden s Foot-
ball is the best American Football
game on the Amiga, The graphics
are brilliant and you can hardly
tell the difference between the
_ Amiga and Sega
, f Megadrlve ver-
sions. The play-
ers are well ant-
mated and all
the teams seem
to have their team colours.
The Megadrive has three differ-
ent fire buttons compared to the
Amiga' I one. but the Amiga ver
sion i till plays fairly well. On the
sound front, there is the stonking
intro tunc and there is even a
mi)r of the original Megadrive
music before you begin the game.
While you are playing there are
some good sound effects like the
Hup hup Hup before the tall is
in play and loads of bone-crunch-
ing tackle noises.
There art a couple of slight
problems. The First one tj that it s
rather easy. Whether it's jusl
because I m amazing at John Mad-
den's and can beat all the others
in the office or because I've had
loads of practice playing the
Megadrive version, I don't know,
but it is still easy. The other prob-
lem is that it slows down in parts
and always seems
as though the
other team is
much faster than
you. Apart front
that, once you ve
mastered the control system it's
great fun to play, especially when
you score that all-important first
touchdown.
YOU jutt can't help jumping out
of your seat and bopping to the
touchdown tune. What 1 am dis-
appointed about Is the distinct
lack of beautiful cheer-leaders.
Oh well, you can t have it all.
If you are a fan of American
Football iai I am) then this game
will definitely be At the top of
your shopping list.
Don't forget - once you've
bought the game, go round to
your Mega drive- owning chums'
houses and sny anything you can
do, we can do just the same' \
That II get them riled.
Jonathan
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Getting started and
staying alive in Knightmare
For all you peep* who are struggling to get started in this DM clone,
here are some tips that I employ when playing the game. Being the
thoroughly thoughtful person that I am, I ve even included a partial
map J did during the quest for the shield,
If you haven't found the quest entrance yet fare you sure this is the
game for you?} just find the stick and throw it at the tree who says
I've lost my child.
Hand to hand combat
Set up your party appropriately. I've seen some players with their Wizard at
the front of the party while in combat, which Is a sure way to send htm to
oblivion. Make sure your strongest members are at the front,
When you encounter a monster, never, never stand still and fight it - ien& it
to a room where you can run around it while hacking away.
I set up my computer so that 1 have one hand on the numeric keypad for
movement and the other hand on the mouse, which is positioned over the
weapons ready to strike.
It takes a little practice to become acquainted with sidestepping and turning
on the spot without having to glance at the keypad, but once you have mas-
tered it, you can keep your eye on the screen at all times while moving
around.
Forget about the movement icons - they will slow you down in combat.
Most of the monsters are very slow, so you can easily outmanoeuvre them to
hit them from the side or from behind. If you are the cowardly type, though,
you could always lead the monster back to a room which you can then lock
hirrtfherm in, but this doesn t exactly bump up your experience points.
Environmental damage
Use your environment to your advantage. Lead monsters to doorways and
then close the door on the suckers while hitting them. Also, some of the traps
you encounter can become quite devastating weapons for you to use.
Take the short hallway with a hole and a leuer at either end. The oracle says
do* t play with fire, and when you pull the lever, a fireball is shot from the
hole - perfect for luring monsters to and letting them follow you down the hall
while you pull the lever to unleash the fireball onto them. Be careful not to get
hit yourself by pulling the lever once they are dead, though.
If you look at the map near this hallway, you will see a section of the wall is
marked as false. Later on, when you are on the other side, you will find a but-
ton on a wall [see Figure l| which, when pressed, will remove that section and
provide you with a shortcut to Che fireball hall,
You will find this extremely useful later on because when you enter the
sewer area, you wrll encounter quite a few monsters in groups of four, They
can take a fair time to kill normally, so just entice them to follow you and
show them your new-found fireball trick.
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Mapping
The best way to map an area ij to
ignore any doors or switches you come
acrojj until you have been in every
nooJi and cranny of the area you are in.
When you have mapped out the current
area, go to the nearest door and it Art
mapping the newly uncovered 9tea from
there.
The worst thing to do is to just
aimdly go around going through every
door you He. This onJy enlarges the
Area you have to map and will read to
you getting tost.
Spells
When it comes to healing
the wounded, you must
have your cleric below the
character icon of the charac-
ter you wish to cast the
heal spell on. To be able to
heal the cleric, you must
have a bottle in the other
hand or the cleric, then cast
one of the healing spetfs.
The botire will fifl with the
Appropriate spell and the
cleric can then drink From
it,
May ma Q/WIER
Guns, knives and all round nastiness in
ALCATRAZ
INFOGRAMES ■ £25.99 - % meg ■ Joystick ■ Out now
Somebody in this game hasn't
quite got the right idea. Your
average law Breaker tends to
steer clear of prisons in general. Crimi-
nals and prison celts. It's a bad combina-
tion.
But our Mr Big Baddie in this game
has seen fit to break into a prison, Not
out of prison like any normal balanced
public enemy, but into one. AJcatraz,
strangely enough.
Lucky for him that AJcatraz was
deserted or he wouldVe looked a proper
charlie. So now he's running his drug
cartel from within the fortified walls.
Obviously, this sort of disregard tor
common sense can't go unquesboned.
This being the case, some btokes m suits
decide that some blokes in combat
trousers should sneak into the prison
and shoot the bad guy. Democracy, eh?
The blokes in combat trousers, who
are afso lumbered with the rather trap
names of Fist and Bird, are then
dumped in a dinghy and given a hearty
shove m the general direction of Alca-
traz.
And when they finally drift ashore on
Alcatraz Island, they find themselves
armed only with nine throwing knives
each- This is so they can infiltrate the
prison without making too much noise.
unfortunateJy. as soon as any of the
guards spot them, they let rip with guns,
grenades and flame throwers, thus spoil-
ing the surprise somewhat Ho hum.
Anyway, with all hell breaking loose,
our two heroes must battle their way to
various buildings in the Alcatraz complex
and either nick evidence or blow them
up. These sections are played in 3D r
rather than the horizontal scrolling of
the rest of the game, presumably to ado'
to the atmosphere. Alcatra?, it must be
said, bears an almost urvcanny resem-
blance to Hostages. This isn't surprising
The sergeant alwaji
insisted on showing
his home videos—
when you realise that Alcatraz is, to all
intents and purposes, Hostages 2.
While this is undoubtedly a bit of a
plus, seeing as how Hostages was and
still is a stonking little game, it also
Orings to light the bad points in Alca-
traz.
You see, Alcatraz looks a hell of a lot
like all the different sections in
Hostages, but played in a different
order, You've got the left to right bit.
the 3D walk-^round-and-shoot-baddies
bit, and the "too bioody hard for its
own good' abseiling bit.
But whereas in Hostages the left to
right bit waj a pain in the rear end, in
Afcat/a? it's excellent. You can pick, up a
variety of weapons horn downed
guards and use them yourself. This,
coupled with the screams and gun-
shots, makes this section quite a testy
Irttie shoot-'em-up,
Its only real let downs are that the
two player sprites are identical and you
can only change weapons when you're
hiding in the background, so you end
up having to dodge behind doors while
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chore in the middle of a fight, At the
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All the meaty weapons you coflected
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and weil, let's be honest, RoboCop 3 did
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the best section just feels a bit flat
I'm afraid.
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Software
From the simplest public domain
effort to the most sophisticated,
semi-DTP high-end package,
wordprocessors start with the assumption
thai you want type in documents, process
Ihem with the computer and then output
them in an acceptable finished farm.
The features you will require to help
you do this vary according to how you
wish to use the package - writing letters
and constructing a novel are two veiy dif-
ferent tasks, and you should choose a pro-
gram which rellnecks what you require -
and what you can afford.
This article consists of reviews of ail the
main packages, followed by a comprehen-
sive table detailing the various features
and capabilities of the programs reviewed.
It will give you an overview of a very
crowded market, and help you to decide
exactly which program matches your
needs, at your budget level-
word thesaurus courtesy of Collins, very
good file support for other WPs and
applications (you can save or read
ProText or WordPerfect files for example),
and up to IQQ files can be open - it you
have the memory - at once.
Wordworth is a very strong, flexible
and powerful graphical wordpmcessor. It
excels in a number d areas, and is weak
in none, making it a leading contender in
the WP market.
one meg to start with, but that's only
good for about 1,000 words, especially if
you use more than one typeface. You can
have 120k of Chip RAM left, but there's
little free Fast RAM, and it runs out fairly
quickly, to include graphics you'll need
at least 1 .5 to 2Mb of RAM. Workbench
is closed automatically to save memory,
but if you have some to spare there's an
option to open it again. One annoying
aspect of the program is the flickery
screen and siow updating.
Surprisingly there's a quick screen option
which eliminates virtually all ol this, and
the text scrolling speed remains quick,
making editing a pleasure.
Besides the excellent font and printer
support, Wordworth has a couple of
other strong points. There's a 110,000
word English dictionary and a 30,000
Protext
Version 5,5 of Protest has gradually
evolved from a PC, blank edit screen and
command line text editor that was very
fast, ta today's all-new version, which is
far 'more user friendly, yet retains the
brute force text-crunching aspects
To say the old Protest was not easy to
use is an understatement. The latest ver-
Wordworth
If William Wordsworth was alive today,
would he use an Amiga and a copy of
Wordworth to pen his particular brand of
prose? No, not if he had any sense. Or to
quantify that, no, not unless he had a
2Mb Amiga, a hard drive, and as an
optional extra, an accelerator card.
Wordworth is supplied on four disks
and comes with a large and detailed
manual. The program has to be installed
to (loppy or hard drive, so in the case of
floppies, with the addition of a docu-
ments disk, that's five blank diski you
need to start - unless you have a hard
drive, which is recommended.
There's a hard drive install program
supplied that quickly sets the system up
for use. Wordworth work? in a similar
manner to most Workbench 2-complianl
applications, so the scroll bars on its win-
dows have gadgets an the bottom rather
than at the lop and bottom,
The display can either be medium or
high resolution, if you have a flicker fixer
for the latter option, and presents a cen-
tral writing area with pull-down menus
along the top and the most commonly
accessed items such as justification, line
spacing, typeface and colour control as
icons down the side.
This is Wysiwyg, which is useful consid-
ering the different types of font that
Wordworth can use. There are
Workbench fonts, four enhanced
Wordworth fonts, plus standard fonts,
Colourfonts and Compugraphics outline
fonts - if you have Workbench 2. That's a
hell of a lot of different types.
The impressive thing is yau can mix
and match them onscreen, however you
choose. Add a picture import facility,
where you can resize the image, and
have text flow around either the whole
block, or an object, and you have an
almost DTP approach to wordprocessing.
There is a drawback to this wanton use
of style, and that's memory. You need
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Is there anyone in Amiga land who has never seen Scribble,
with its flowery icon and - let's be honest - rather uninspiring
interface? Scribble was one of the very first WFs for the Amiga,
and even in its latest incarnation, that age shows.
Still you can open and edit tour files at once and it does
contain enough minimum features to satisfy the infrequent
prose merchant. No obvious clues as to what's going on de-
tract the eye around the bland Scribble editing screen - all
functions have to be pulled down from the menus.
So it's cheapish, but Scribble does boast spell checking, a
word count, cut/copy and paste for shuffling blocks of text
around in an easy manner, and user-defined line spacing.
Formatting text options are fairly rudimentary, mind you.
tt's either right, [ustrfied or nothing, and there are no headers
or footers, It isn't Wysiwyg, but there is a preview mode which
shows the file with the formatting, line spacing and text effect
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Scribble isn't complex, but it does contain |usl enough of
everything to make life easy for the casual letter writer If
that's all you need then why bother paying over a £100 lor
features you'll never use?
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sion, supplied on four disks and with one
large manual and three small ones, has
done much to soften its image, yet certain
aspects still require a trip to the help file of
manual.
For a start, the editing window is re-
sizeable and the program runs under
Workbench. There are a host of features
accessible from the pull-down menus, so
many In fact that they almost reach the
bottom of the screen. Colours are not,
however, changeable, which means you
are stuck with any combination of the
standard four w& coloure.
When you first install Pretext on either
floppies or hard drive, a configuration pro-
gram is run offering the choice to assign
icons to files (generally a good idea),
change the colours, and install a printer
from a large range of common models, At
last a driver for the Citizen Swift 24 is
included as well. The config program can
be run again on its own to change these
defaults.
Back on the editing front Protext is fast,
and made quicker by the ability to jump
the cursor around the page and the docu-
ment. A rather strange feature is the ability
to automatically put line numbers in your
text, presumably so that you can save Ascii
as a listing for use in a programming lan-
guage.
White editing is ngw much friendlier,
and at last the word count and the option
to select new printer drivers are on menus,
there's still one noticeable omission. If you
want a spell of double line spacing you
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into the Glossary and assign the glossary entry as a
macro key. From now on, each time you press the key
to insert the glossary entry into the document
excellence! inserts the time or date as text This means
the time or date is now fixed in the document and will
not change.
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Cfror and pinning forrt with exctflflKit
need to access the command line- and
enter the correct code. This b less painful
than before for the simple reason that
everything that Isn't on the menus has its
command explained on the help menu.
Still, even with improved disk access,
you can only load and save Pretext or Ascii
files, unlike Wordworth, and there is no
support for incorporating graphics, except
rudimentary lines. At least you don't get
memory warnings half-way through an
article though.
Protext also supports a few typefaces
(Prestige, Helvetica, Courier and Times)
and a range of styles Id choose from,
including double height text, but other-
wise it's paltry compared to Wordworth,
Only the bask styles show up onscreen as
well, since this is not Wysiwyg.
Where Protect does outstrip
Wordworth is in its comprehensive mail
merge facilities and generally more
advanced versions of the same features
that both WPs share. I was especially
impressed by the table of contents genera-
tion, data tables and ability to calculate
scribblings
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you through all the
top packages
expressions in the text It was also nice to
see widow control, which stops the odd
word being left at the top of a page or col-
umn. Pretty sophisticated stuff. Even the
word count can analyse the text, and you
can count words in a marked! block on
their own.
The main dictionary is markedly smaller
than that supplied with Wordworth - only
70,000 words compared to 1 1 0,000 - but
its legal and medical supplement wins
with 40,000 words to 26,000. There are
also quick dictionaries of 5,000 and 500
words far when memory is at a premium,
Protext was a naked brute text
cruncher. Now it's almost fully clothed,
but underneath the trappings there still
beats a mean text word pro'. The presen-
tation still looks crude in places- - that's the
PC heritage for you - so you can't really
recommend it to people as their first WP.
Neither is it suited lor any type erf graphi-
cal work. On the other hand, if you need a
fast and efficient WP, mail merge or
advanced processing features, then this
latest version of Protext is way nut in front.
excellence!
The first of the American power user WPs
got off to a flying start with a self assembly
manual, no less than 57 pages of manual
corrections. (!) and a hard drive installation
program that tries to copy the program to
the wrong place. Then when running from
HO it asks for the one of the original disks
to be inserted.
Oh well, once underway excellence!
looks, il anything, like a cut-down
Wordworth or a tarted up KindWords. It
opens its own screen, though Workbench
is still accessible, and the editing screen has
icons for the most commonly used com-
mands (line spacing and so on) and ruler
and paper markers should they be
required- Everything else drops down from
menus. A nice feature is that you can cus-
tomise the colour scheme of your 8<olour
environment better than any of the other
packages.
Once I'd set it up to look nice, the sec-
ond pleasant surprise was the WPs own
fonts. Naturally I had access to all the other
fonts from these packages, because they
are all installed in your Fonts library, but
excellent e! J s own fonts were lovely.
Ordinary 1 2-point text was nice and large,
rounded, and a delight to read, as
opposed to Wandwcrth's spidery fonts and
the. infernal engine approach of Protext.
These fonts are PostScript, too, so
inevitably you can print to a PostScript
printer, or - and how handy this b - write
a PostScript file to a disk.
The vertical scrolling through the text
wasn't very good, though. It's so bad, in
fact, that I always went for the mouse and
used the scroll bars instead- However, the
screen is updated quicker than Wordworth,
and there's less of a flickery effect
The window resizing option is very
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cojtfuiiitttipn. You can create text using different fonts, siu
styles, and color. Text waps automatical ly around pictures
even as you type. Kith Pen Pa) pa can nix text, graphics,
pictures, and data in ways no other fttjga word processor can do
Pen Pat is very easy to I earn and use, This nord processor has
been designed nith you, the user, in mind. Menus, Mouse guides
rulers j and screens provide an interface that stands out fret
other foiga nord processors.
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sluggish. You can open more than one
file at a time,, but memory starts to
become scarce when you do. And when
it runs out you suddenly find that with-
out warning you can't do things like
resize windows, or ever save o-ne of
those files,
If you close one and fret up enough
memory you can then save the other
one, but obviously this unheralded
problem - the program doesn't tell you
there is a problem - means you need at
least 2Mb of RAM if you're going to
edited a couple of files at once, espe-
cially it you use graphics.
While the features of excellence! put
it firmly in the mid to upper perfor-
mance category, it does have a couple
of advanced features such as Table of
Contents entries and a mathematical
expression calculator - and some fea-
tures which are less than useful.
The spell checking, which does boast
continuous checking, lacks sophistica-
tion, and the ability to import .IFF pic-
tures is marred by the ability to only
display up to eight colours in a docu-
ment. How many eight-colour DPaint
pictures do you draw? In fairness, the
idea is to provide illustrations rather
than to be a DTP package, which it is
far from.
The spell checker has a 140,000 die-
SliiHwthtg fanis. dodgy sptlHng...
tionary, including all manner of supple-
ments for words you or i will never use,
hut it is American, A handy feature far
the semi-literate is a grammar checking,
which is both mildy useful and mildly
amusing at times.
A very strange feature of excellence!
is that while it can write a form of test
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but it reads Protest files perfectly! It can
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Despite some grey areas, especially in
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Pen Pal
There are some pieces of software that
you foathe the moment you encounter
them, and then there are some, such as
Pen Pal, that you cannot help but like. I
was endeared to the product when I
saw the box and then the manual.
Worse still, the program was even
nicer when the two-disk set rapidiy and
efficiently installed and we were off and
scribing.
Advanced picture handling abilities,
such as setting colour zero to transpar-
ent so that you can flow text around it,
and specifying just how the text flows
around your picture, make for very
attractive documents, especially when
you can draw colour-filled or empty
boxes, and use lines, to highlight or to
simply dress up documents.
However, why is it that the two pro-
grams that can make the best use of
pictures - this and Wordworth - are the
same two that have the least free mem-
ory? You can incorporate any kind of
.IFF image in Pen Pal (and resize the
things) - even a HAM pic - but even a
lo-res 32-colour picture requires an
astonishing 100k to load into the docu-
ment.
Thankfully, Pen Pal tells you both
how much memory you need to load a
pic, and how much you have left. On a
one meg Amiga there's onfy 59k avail-
able. It even tells you what the various
icons down the side of the screen do,
by attaching an explanation tag to the
cursor when it moves over them.
This helpful attitude pervades the
product, right from the very attractive
writing window, with rules, icons and
menus, down to its spell checker, for-
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Yes, here's why the damn thing
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Buying a wordprocessor just
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WP is as good as Per. Pal it's
certainly an attractive extra?,
Though the package may give a
flighty impression, it still packs
some powerful punches, such
as mail merge.
This is a medium range
wordprocessor, that's a dab
hand at graphics, and falls over
itself to be helpful. If you ever
needed a WP to use in an edu-
cational environment, this one
would be the winner by a mile.
ProWrite
Ah, I do love a box stuffed full
with disks, nine in this particular
case. Before you scratch
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aren't supposed to that many -
they've been shoved in for the
benefit of reviewers - as if hav-
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program disk makes life any eas-
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to Wordworth, as both follow
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tions of gun-metal blue colour
schemes and gadgets on the
scroll bars at the end of the bar,
rather than both ends.
Now you expect some dubi-
ous boasts from software houses,
but for ProWrite to be- badged as
last verges on the ridiculous. You
can type very quickly, but if you
want to edit somewhere else in
the text, which is after all why
you use a WP rather than a type-
writer, it's slow. If there's a picture in
your document then it stops while it
worki out what the image looks like,
every time you scroll past it.
The trouble with WPs these days is
that a lot of them have similar features.
Yeah, we've got. macros, .IFF imports,
word counts, complete justification,
icons for functions, mail merge. Sure,
ProWrite has all of these, except it
doesn't do anything any better than any
other wordprocessor, and half the time it
is a lot worse.
In its favour, the text display is nice
and clear, there are up to ten macros for
your favourite command combinations.
There is also a speech option. However,
the advantages stop there, so now you
can discard ProWrite from your consider-
ations, because it simply doesn't live up
to its high performance hype.
Special features chart
Wo rdworth Protext 5. 5
Scribble
excellence!
Pen Pal
ProWrite
Memory required
1Mb
1Mb
512k
1Mb
1 Mb
1Mb
Hard drive install?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Difficult
10
Max open fifes
Wysiwyg
Ease of use
Text scroll speed
Read Ascii?
Read Iff tert?
100
1
4
I
4
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Good
Slow
Yes
No
No
Very good
Good
Very good
Good
Excellent
Quick
Fast
Medium
Slow
Slow
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Read other WPs teat?
Pretext, Kindwords,
No
No
Protext
No
WordPerfect, ProWrite
Justification
Ail
All
Full only
All
No
Ml
All
Case Conversion
Widow control
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Page Preview
Graphics
Flow around outlines
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
n/a
n/a
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No
Word Count
Thesaurus;
Yes
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Yes
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PostScript driver
Printer drivers;
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Yes
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Yes
Yes
Yes
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System
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System
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Yes
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No
No
No
No
No
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No
No
1
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No
Yes
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User-defined
User
Co to Page
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Online help
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Yes
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No
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res
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Undo Delete
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Wo rdworth isn't far behind, but for
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range PC and Mac product. As I said,
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porate pictures.
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Scribble or the more expensive Pen Pal.
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ments that contain artwork, and you
Suppliers
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Digita International
Amor Ltd
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0733 68909
0753 686000
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081-309 1111
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Silica Systems
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need to print PostScript files to disk, or
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comes highly recommended. Bear in
mind that to use Wordworth, Pen Pal
and excellence? you need at least
1.5Mb of RAM - 1Mb simply doesn't
stretch far enough when
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Power LOCO
EdLib Software
Go into any school's information technol-
ogy department and you're bound Id trip
over a turtle, No, not the kind that should
be kept in tile biology department, but the
type that's mentioned in the same breath
as, the word LOCO.
Yes, the little mechanical buggies that
use a pen to scurry around and draw pic-
tures with - either on the floor or on the
screen.
LOCO is the programming language
that is used almost exclusively in schools as
a first step to teaching
the principles of good
programming in other
languages. 5ome critits
say that that's all it's
good for and that it
should stay firmly in
the classroom. Others
say that LOCO has a
lot to offer outside the
classroom. One ol
these exponents is a
guy named Gary
Teachout - it's not a made-up name, hon-
est
Gary has been enhancing LOCO on the
Amiga and has turned it into a version
known as Power LOCO, an experimental!
programming language baaed on Lisp and
LOGO. It is versatile, highly interactive,
organises programs as collections of proce-
dures and includes lists as first-dass data
objects. With only a few exceptions,. Power
There is a wealth of inexpensive
software out there, but where
do you begin to find it?
Steve Williams sticks
up a few signposts
for you to
follow
The fvwer LOCO turtlr ctrtatnly mnt
nvrrhaard when M drew Ml OM*
LOCO is highly compatible with
traditional LOCO,
The interface has been provided to
make Power
LOCO easy for the
novice to use. It
produces a custom
eight-colour screen,
already set up with
a turtle, where the
beginner can have
a swipe at the bask;
turtle graphic com-
mands. It also
allows the size of
the text/graphic
windows to be controlled from the menus,
as well as the screen resolution and num-
ber of colours,
The disk includes an interface providing
a custom screen and menu controls to
make its use easier for beginner. There are
also some examples and a demo, which
will show how to use Power LOCO'S multi-
ple facilities, including fonts, palette, Win-
dows and speech facilities. Up until I saw
i
the fifa.'iH ]
Bisk
JUAJll JJEUU
Click on o button
B&lQCt tt)9 subject
wish to view.
to
you
Power LOCO in action I was
one of those cynics who thought
that LOCO wasn't particularly
impressive.
I have to admit that I have
changed my point of view now - Power
LOGO is indeed a step up from the original
implementation.
IB
there's no need to retrace your steps to
reread certain information. If you get lost
there's always a button present that will
take you back to the main
menu.
Most of the material
on the guide refers
mainly to the Amiga
500 and specifically to
the 1.3 release of
Workbench and KitkstarL
Since this is what the vast major-
ity of users currently have, EdLit? has given
little attention to eariier or later versions.
The pleasing news is that now
Workbench 2 has arrived on our shores,
EdLib plans to make it the subject of the
next release of the AmigaCuide.
KJlfJUfl
as pft&n
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issued tc me machine are
or execufobfes <if you are uorking fron tine CL1 .
Uf vow are working frtm the Workbench). The of lion
hdchiw nust carry -out these instruct! ore cat be known as
argunmfc, w&eters. options or sulfates (at the CLDi and pro.
or tool types <in the Herkbench, depending mi the context)
tohi
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Seriously though it is ail quite sinple, You will find full details cf bw
run program and how to specify their data in the sections on the ELI and the
In the neantine here is a sunwrv of the nam points of
the two ways of controlling the ftffjrj.
o.r kbeijfh
fml about mry toptc under thr Amiga inn h cGHTtd In thll tutorial
Easv to learn for first tine
users Cspr i ngbcard to th<
Point and (lick operation with
neaningfut icons rather than
obscure text conruntb.
Host twiner tial software tan be
used fron it,
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Workbench or CUT Th* pro* and com diicuued
Amiga Guide
EdLib Software
The AmigaCuide is a splendid tutorial for
new and intermediate users. Written using
Gold Disk's Hyper&ook, it provides pages
and pages of colaurfulry presented, useful
information on all the aspects of the Amiga
that the new, and the not so new, user wilt
find invaluable.
The HyperBook presentation makes
swapping between information screens
tun, because you are never Sure what spe-
cial effect is going to be used to make the
transition, The pages are cross-indexed so
II Hows full control over all
features of Is therefore
mich Nore powerful and flexible
than the Workbench.
Provides an interactive language
that can serve as a first step to
program in).
■2)
Screamin'
Miggy
Them!
Screamin Miggy 00 1 is the first of a series
of Amiga sound samples disks by Them!
Productions, for use with the range of
Prniracker, Noisetracker and Soundtracker
music editors (Protratker vl .1 B recom-
mended). Them! ate going to try to pro-
duce sample disks for the growing
Pcotracker user base, as well as promoting
the Amiga as the ultimate home-based
music creation device. Screamin' Migqy
Amiga Computing Moy i 992
ii|E3PD and Shareware
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Ami-Check 2.0
Amtgaituts United
In the current rertttkwi, most of us are finding mqney tight Anything that can
help ytw monitor the movement of your finances has got to be classed as useful,
Antiganuts have dug up such a program.
Ami-Check 2.0 is i simple to use, intuitive, chequebook program for the
Amiga which only runs under Workbench 20x. It allows you to note information
about your cheques ta a veiy straightforward manner, displaying a running bal-
ance as you do SO.
The program also lets you dear and reconcile your chequebook, begin new
registers with outstanding cheques only, print all cleared, outstanding or
selected entries from your cheque-book to your printer, or save them to a disk
file as a standard Asdl code for use In all wordprotessfivg or desktop publishing
programs.
Ami-Check has a unique feature caued Flow-Tracker whkh summarises your
cheque register for you by totals so you can see where your money h going
without setting up accounts.
There Is a calculator with memory functions twttt In that can transfer figures
over to the Ami-Check register. If s essentially a 1 3 position basic calculator,
functioning the same way almost all other calculators. The program will run
from the Wofkbeneh or from the CU, separating itself from the calling Shell.
Extensive documentation and a quick reference guide Is also Included. In ail
Ami Check 2.0 streamilnes the day-to day upkeep of your accounting In a
friendly, simple to use, and Intuitive way.
Ml contains more than 150 percussion
sounds, mostly sampled direct from CD-
Other disks are currently in production,
packed with speech, instruments, chords
and effects, and complete modules can be
obtained from Them! for as little as £1.25
- that's including the past, and packaging..
I wish Them! luck. The quality and
quantity of the samples mates this first disk
a valuable addition to my sequencing pro-
grams. I hope. they put together the other
disks pretty quickly - I'm looking forward
to adding them to my personal collection.
PDQ14
George Thompson Services
PDOJ4 contains an interesting cocktail of
programs that range from some slick
games through to some deeply useful utili-
ties.
There's Defender, a version oi the origi-
nal arcade game; Textra, a neat little text
editor; Degrader, which tries to "degrade"
your system so incompadbie programs will
work on your upgraded machine. You can
also use it to boot off floppy drives other
than DFO: or force your machine to PAL or
NTSC.
The highlight for me was the discovery
of a program called MultiDos. This one
really does rate a serious mention.
For a long time now Amiga to PC file
transfer has been dominated by a program
known as MessyDos, as far as shareware is
concerned at least.
The utility proved so fashionable that
the shareware version ceased development
so that a bigger and better {and less
buggy} commercial product could be put
together and launched as competition to
rival commercial packages CrossDos and
Dos-2-Dos.
Casual users found MessyDos quite ade-
quate for their needs. More demanding
users, however, had difficulties. Some had
trouble reading MessyDos-formatted disks
on their PCs, others discovered thai
MessyDns-formatted disks would unex-
pectedly corrupt while transferring files on
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lems were part of what encouraged
Norwegian Kjeli Didriksen to create
MultiDos 1.12.
MultiDos is easy to use and easy to
install. Unlike MessyDos, MultiDos doesn't
require you to add an entry to the
"DEVSimountlist" file, and thus doesn't
need mounting by issuing a Mount com-
mand.
A new command is provided -
PCMountAJI - which when issued from a
command line turns all your Amiga 3.5in
drives into PC drives, named MDQ;, MDU
and so on, determined by how many
floppy drives you have fitted. After issuing
the PCMountAll command, you can't read
Amiga disks in any of your floppy drives -
they are "stolen'" by MultiDos lor reading
and writing PC disks only.
You still have the DFx: devices, so DFO:
can be used instead of MDO:. An opposite
command, PCKillAII, reverses the drives
back into Amiga ones. Apart from being
able to read and write PC disks, MultiDos
If the figum don't add up COrrrdly Ihrnl
iwn it 1 nltulatof to bflp JKMf figure it out
has another trick up its sleeve - the ability
to format disks.
The MultiDos PCFormat command is as
simple to use as the AmicjaDOS Format
command - in fact its syntax is almost
exactly the same except lor the addition of
a few more options.
PCFormat knows how to format a PC
disk by reading the "PCFormat.Spc" con-
figuration lile from the S: directory. As sup-
plied, this is set up to format standard 80
track, 720k, J.Sin PC floppies, but if you
are the adventurous sort there is nothing
to stop you changing the values in the
configuration file to create a lormat of your
own invention.
I need to be able to transfer Amiga files
onto a PC disk and from there on to an
Amstrad CPC61 28 3in disk using another
File transfer program called MFU. If I used a
3.5in disk that had been formatted in a
pucker PC everything was fine - MFU
would dunk along quite happily and do
the job. II I tried the same thing using a
MessyDos-farmalted disk, MFU would not
recognise it as a PC disk.
My MFU file transfer program recog-
nises MultiDcw-formatced J.Sin disks as
true IBM PC-formatted disks. So it gave me
great satisfaction after testing MultiDos
and finding it 100 per cent dependable (so
far), to drop my copy of MessyDos in the
waste-basket.
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3*>, JiO.il | J Disk I MeuSlarTrek lElrill.uiiu.
370 Tennii.aaain 1 Met;, very ptajrahlc
v'u Gcnjden F]e«e, Jjreal tcjil advcntuic.
44J Castle AJvciMiut i Wilti Graphics).
i'H Werner GanwiSinulMioBolderd.Mi.
ISi* Holy Grail, another brill adveniuie-
5*5* Tobwt R tenter uttLaimed Star Trek.
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171 Arcade Clssaies, 3 on I pal itt
W9 7 Tiles, a very good nreude typ- I
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1342 Cask of LX>om. whtntun:
1350 Pom Prim Conner, ercui thi*n cm up.
12154 Return Im Earth, fix.nl Sci-fi gilive
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265 Home Utiliiiei. Hank Projselc.
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The 60th Tampa Bay Amiga Croup's CHsk of the Month has arrived on my desk and as always there's-an Interesting mixture of pro-
grams, three erf which caught my eye,
Shadowmaker is a specialised utility Tor those of yog who are heavily into desktop video, tf you produce video tides or any type
of video test generation then Shadowmaker could be just what yew ate looking for.
The program will save you having to use Deluxe Paint in order to create shadows for your letters, It can produce professional
anti-aliased font generation across all the packages you use for your production work,
Its Canadian author, Stephen Lebans, pnginally wrote the program as a commercial venture. Shadowmaker is a slightly handi-
capped version of the original, in that the font save size is restricted to 39 ||||||||||||||||||||1|||I ■|||||t||IIIII|
points and under and you can load any font up to 99 points for preview mode.
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complete and fully working program.
It has four gadgets that are used to select the type of shadow you want,
eight gadgets for selection of the direction and displacement of the light
source and two gadgets to select the depth of the shadow. Having adjusted
the shadows to your satisfaction, it's a simple click on the Save button and the
font Is ready to load into your video production package.
It doesn't stop there - Stephen Lebans b currently
working on a new version for release into the public
domain. This version will boast an impressive list of
special effects including perspective, mirroring
and rotation, the ability to load any font into
your paint program for retouching and
enhancing, professional video font sets,
L hand-crafted bitmaps lor video production,
text animation, and the ability to alter the
inter-character/kern spacing from within
your favourite Paint program,
The next program on T-BAG 60
that made me smile was OneKey, an input
handler written by Commodore's Carolyn
Seheppner for users who can only press one keyboard key at a time. OneKey gathers separately typed
qualifier keys- Shift, Ait, Ctrl, L-Amiga, and R-Amiga - and applies them to the next non-qualifier key that is typed, This means that
once OneKey is running, Shift followed by a lower case t will produce an upper case T, A very handy utility.
The best fun on T-BAC 60 is probably Wordsearch Generator, a computerised, erm, wordsearch generator that can produce puz-
zle grid sizes of anything up to 1,000 by 1,000 characters, using up to 50 words. Word orientation can be set in any of the eight
primaiy directions and the puzzle can be rotated or flipped. Wordsearch Generator has a Spartan but functional user Interface and
can send the word list, key and puzzle to disk or printer. The Workbench 2.0 system default font is supported by the puzzle win-
daws.
It wodts by generating a first placement and then moving through the puzzle successively until it finds a place where the word
will fit, Once a place is found it goes on to the next word. If a fit cannot be made, the preceding word is moved to another place
and if it can't find a place to fit itself the program goes back to the word before it.
So if you set it up with a really complex puzzle, the program seems to take forever, but eventually it does complete the puizle,
Because forever is a long time the author, Craig Lever, has thoughtfully added a requester to abort the function.
Setting up the wordsearch generator is simplicity itself. Type a list of words for encryption into the wordtist window - hitting
Return pushes the cursor down to the next line ready to enter another word. The scroll bar at the side of the window lets you
change the view of the word 1st, If you need to edit, an entry, fust click where you want to change and use the delete or backspace.
The Puzzle Window is where the last generated puzzle is displayed, rf the puzzle is larger than the window the scroll bars at the
bottom and right side can be used to scroti about II you want to be really silly just for the hell of it, you can resize the puzzle win-
dow so it Fills the whole of the Workbench screen.
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the job of getting you from A
to B that they are primarily
designed to do. The difference
arises in their price tags and
their performance.
The same logic applies to
word processors. At the top of
the range you have WPs like
Protest, Wordworth, ProWrite
and eKcellencel. All are very
fine, but they cost a lot. At the
other end of the scale you have
WPs that are in the public
domain, While they might not
have the finesse of some of the
top of the range WPs they have
the advantage of being able to
do the same basic job without
costing the earth.
TextPlus is one such pro-
gram. It boasts multiple win-
dows, footnotes, serial letters,
an Afiexx port with 120 commands, ANSI
compatibility, the ability to load files
crunched by PowerPacker, mapping of
function keys, a menu for external appli-
cations or macros, powerful block opera-
tions ^nd automatic saving in time
intervals.
The block operations Mark, Copy,
Delete, and Delete Mark can be directly
executed using the mouse, There's a
backup-mode to prevent files being over-
written, multitasking, and the cursor can
be positioned onscreen by clicking the
mouse.
That's a pretty damned impressive list
of features considering the price. OK, so it
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shorten your tetters, so don't be offended if you get the chop.
Desperate plea
I've been meaning to write this letter for over a year, so
[as they say in Lemmingsville) "let's go!".
I'll start with the obligatory congratulations on the
best Amiga magazine going. I'm proud to say i own
every copy and I've just renewed my subscription.
There! That's the creepy bit over, on with the tetter.
First of all, could you run an article on sprites in C,
particularly Vsprites? Are there any good books on the
subject?
Secondly, why hasn't anyone reviewed Mech
Forte/Battle Mech/Mech Battle by Ralph Reed? I have
two different versions of the PD game and, after sending
my $25 (that was fun - have you ever tried getting a
five dollar note from NatWest?) a full copy too. It's
excellent.
I'm a bit concerned that Mech Force, which is the lull
version, seems to be available as PD. Is it the full game
with warrior and lactory programs?
Finally, a desperate plea. Does anyone out there know
where I can get a hold of Little Computer People? It was
released on the Mastertronic label for £5 and I've been
trying to find a copy for four years or so. It's beginning
to turn into an obsession! If anyone is willing to sell their
copy, I'll happily buy it.
Ian Hodgetts, Wigan
If yw keep or? eye on our Programming Almanac coJurnn,
Margaret may be covering sprites at some time in the
future, but i can't guarantee it. for boots on C program-
ming, you could contact Computer Manuals (0.21-706
&O0O) who stock a wide range of books, or try Bruce Smith
Books (072? 41241) with an eye to purchasing their
Mastering Amiga C,
As for your PD concerns, I realty haven't a clue whether
or pat same unscrupulous PD libraries are distributing the
fuit shareware version, Yw could always phone the PD cow-
pony concerned and ask them for details- Perhaps the Mech
force they do isn't the full game, or maybe the author has
released it to them.
We haven't had the program in our PD section recently
because Mech farce has been around for a iong time now,
Mr Angry versus Beginners
In response to C Kostryfce's
letter in issue 46, I would
like to say that until reading
it I didn't realise that the
Prize Letter award is now
being given to prize prats!
If anyone who has owned
an Amiga since 1988 and hasn't bothered to learn how
to make a disk bootable and alter the startup-sequence
can then go on to say he'd like our magazine to run a
"how to dp it" article on the subject for the umpteenth
time, then it's high time he swapped his machine for a
Nintendo.
I have owned three Amigas since 198? and have
been a reader/subscriber to Amiga Computing since day
one. I realise that more new Amiga owners are reading
the mag, especially after the Christmas period, but it
seems to me that every year, starting with the February
issue, we are repeating another boring year of how to
do this, that, and a bit of the other.
New users have to start somewhere, and I don't
knock them or the excellent articles you produce (or
them, but to award a prize letter to someone who has
never bothered to read a beginners' series because it's
too technical, well that's the pits. I have never had rea-
son Or inclination to voice my opinion through the let-
ters pages of s magazine before, but Mr Kostryke's letter
really astounded me.
Graham Woodcock, Bamsky
Phew! That was o proper bit of spfeen-ve/JtiirNj and no mis-
take. I take the point ahoul the repetitive nature of advice
on AmigaDOS, but there's not a lot we con do about ft.
It's She jab of a magazine like Amiga Computing ro
cater tor ail of it's readers, especially the new ones who
may be feeling a bit lost and who could either give up the
mors serious side of the Amiga it we don't support them or,
even worse, stop reading the mag altogether.
We go back over the some ground every year because,
as you poipt out, we gain a lot more readers every year.
Our circulation jncreosed by a massive 41% last year, mak-
ing Amiga Computing officially Europe's fastest growing
Amiga magazine.
In order to support and retain these new readers, we are
running a Pew beginners' series, and we'll continue to run
it os long as we receive letters by the sock-load from people
like the much berated Mr Kosrryke.
As a consolation, I've decided to award you Shis month's
prize os your letter could have came from Mr Angry him-
self Now could you write to us with your full address?
and we try to stick fo the latest releases. Sorryi Your last
desperate plea for a copy of Little Computer People sounds
like one of two things. It's either an admission of a total
tack of taste in software (t mean, have you ever actually
played the game?) or it's a tailor-made Amiga Computing
Classifieds ad. Send an ad for our new Classifieds column
and I'm sure one ol our readers will be overjoyed to sell you
their copy.
CDTV delights
I'm writing to say how much I enjoy using my CDTV,
and think other readers should know how pleasurable
the machine can he.
For instance when you're working on DPaint IV, mak-
ing music with OctaMed, or producing a multimedia
presentation - in fact anything other than playing a
game - you can do some neat extra things. Just slot a
CD into the caddy, put it in the CDTV and press play to
listen to Public Enemy while working on your creation.
Plus if you have MediaShow, you can have music
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rubbish program in any case. Just thought you'd like to
know!
Ian Harper, Northampton
Hmm - not boasting to all our non-CDTV owning readers,
are you Ian? You seem to have realised what on ideal tool
CDTV is for video and multimedia projects, but only if you
con afford the 1449 prke tag.
Perhaps the Amiga external CDTV-compatibie ROM
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free as soon as they arrive in the shops.
Let me make one thing clear - i know that copying is
stealing, but if the software houses would distribute their
titles to more stores in overseas locations I would buy
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them instead of doing something illegal! I realis* soft-
ware can be bought through mail order, but I tried this
once and all I got was lousy service and a badly-working
program I could have copied from a friend.
Having said thii in defence of hackers, I still like the
stance taken by Amiga Computing and the position it
takes against pirates and their accomplices. At least your
magazine is available all over the Netherlands.
fan de Vrfes, Holland
White I sympathise with your problems in finding decent
software in Holland, I can't accept th'a as an argument in
favour of theft, which is what "hacking" and "piracy"
realty are. I might as well ioy that there ore very few
Pontioc dealerships in my home town, so it's OK to go out
and nick one from a visiting American tourist.
You say you have tried mail order and received lousy ser-
vice, Well, I sympathise with that, too, but you really
should try to order software from one of the larger rep-
utable British or German mail order houses.
It's no use reverting to piracy because you've hod one
bod experience with a mail order cowboy firm, sa persevere
ond you should have no excuse for hacking, or whatever
other name you tike to give to software theft.
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I will be receiving an Amiga 500 for my birthday in April,
so I decided to subscribe to Amiga Computing to see if I
could learn anything about the machine beforehand.
One day while I was looking through the magazine I
tame across a PD advertisement and I noticed that
everything was very cheap.
for example, there was a business pack with word?
processor, spreadsheet, database and so on, all f o/£6 -
usually that would cost £600-
What I'd like to know is what public domain is and
why it is so cheap?
Tarn Advani, Swindon
Public domain (PD) software is usually written by an
enthusiast, who may or may not be a talented pro-
grammer, and then released as free software to
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and a nominal amount to cover running costs such as
postage and packaging. That's why it's so cheap.
The problem with some PD software is that it can be
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programs around.
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This means you lose your cash. You should always take
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repair carried out.
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one out or refund your money. On the other hand, ft" they ore
charging for labour and time and don't specifically soy they'll
repair your machine, you'll find it a lot more difficult to get
your cash bock,
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ment states that repairs cost such-and-such, rtie ASA might
conclude that to charge for the consultation rather than the
repair itself is unfair and order the company to withdraw its
advertisement. f
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pany's advertisement, I can't judge whether W.T.S. has actu-
ally done anything wrong, but if you are convinced they have,
you should certainly take the matter further yourself.
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Dynamic Date Exchange (DDE) is
fast becoming one of those tire-
some acronyms in which the PC
world seems to revel. In fact, since the
recent surge in the Windows I user base
you can hardty open a PC mag without trip-
ping over reams of references to DD£ and
the programs scurrying to support it. Now
it's arrived on the Amiga in the shape of the
more evocatively named HotLinks,
So what is ODE? It is the ability to create
a file in a program such as a word processor
then, instead of saving it to disk, "publish-
ing" it as an "edition" to a disk area con-
trolled by tine exchange program. A second
program, such as a DTP package, should
then be able to "subscribe* to the edition,
which effectively means loading it in off
disk,
Dynamic
What makes this operation rather differ-
ent from a simple shuttling system is the
word "dynamic" resting snugly between
the "data" and the "exchange", Data
passed around several subscribers by a DDE
system is tracked all the time, and when
changes are made to it in one program, the
edition is updated in every other program
presently subscribing to iL It sounds compli-
cated, but it's really very simple in practice.
In the DTP sector in particular, DDE is an
exciting development we can hope to see
take off this year, though with manufactur-
ers notoriously uncooperative in the Amiga
market it is unlikely that they'll ail settle tor a
single system. For now, console yourself
The competition
Gold Disk, makers oi Professional Page, aren't sit-
ting on their laurels as far as DDE is concerned.
They were the flrsl to develop a very limited form
of DDE with the direct link between ProPage and
i In.' Ktkle odiior, and the release of ProPage 1-0
this month should see this greatly expanded
The article editor will be retained and will be
augmented by a direct hot link to Professional
Draw 3.0, due lor release 1 later in the year. There's
no word yet on whether or not there will be a
bitmap editor like BME, but I'd be surprised if
SoftLogik's lead wasn't followed in this case.
with the fact that competition will lead to
more rapid development in this area.
With DDE, you need never edit your text
on a DTP page, as It is far quicker to Hip to
the text editor, make a few changes,
update the file, then (lip back to the DTP
package where the changes should have
been executed. The same goes for a
graphic you need to retouch, as long as the
relevant DDE-compatible graphics program
is available.
HotUnks is the first DDE system for the
Amiga, and as it is a product of SoftLogik,
it's hardly surprising that the only program
to support it at the moment is PageStream
2.2. The HotLinks Editions package will be
sold as an introductory package containing
the HotLinks library and editions manage-
ment programs, the Hotlinked text editor
PageUner, and the similarly equipped Bit
Map Editor (BME),
Installing HotLinks to hard drive is very
easy, and takes only a couple of minutes. A
directory is created on the hard drive of
your choice, the HotLinks library is copied
to your L directory, and he HotLinks man-
agement programs are copied across to the
HotLinks drawer.
PageLiner and BME are not included in
the installation, but neither requires com-
pie* installation and both can be dragged
across to their new home on the
Workbench screen.
The first job with a newly- in it a lied
HotLinks is to double click on the HotLinks
program icon to fire up the system, which
will make the appropriate library resident.
Right from the start, the user will find that
security is well taken care of,
and will have to enter his or
her name and password.
To begin with, the
"root" password, supplied
with your copy of HotUnks,
is needed so that you can
add your own and other
users' passwords - a task
accomplished with the rather
unfortunately named Hump.
This program
enables the adding of as
many users and passwords
as you like, any or alt of
which may be collected together as a
group. These at first seem a little unimpor-
tant, but if you use HotLinks over a net-
worked system or have a machine used by
more than two or three people, the group
becomes a useful second assurance of data
security.
Restricted
When an edition is published, be it a
text file or bitmap, the publisher can
decide whether the edition is lor personal
use- only, or whether its us* ii restricted to
the publisher's group. The file can be
made available to everyone, of course,
but unless a machine is being used by just
one person, this could lead to problems
when the office idiot decides to experi-
ment with next month's contents page.
There are spell checker and word
search options, and even a thesaurus
which belies the program's simple
Workbench -style screen.
bme, as its name suggests, is restricted
to work on bitmapped graphics, and can
edit IFF and GIF files, All files were repre-
sented in greyseale on the pre-release ver-
sion we tried, but the program does have
cut, paste, and a crop function which DTP
users will find invaluable. Using BME, an
IFF or GIF bitmap picture can be cropped
and edited outside PageStream and the
results seen instantly on the page.
The program has the ability to edit RGB
and CMYK colour values, and basic draw-
ing tools for retouching, but it isn't really
Intended as a coiour graphics processing
program. It is more of a tool for use in con-
junction with PageStream, and as such is
extremely useful to anyone using bitmap
graphics.
According to SoftLogik, there should
soon be a Ho [Links-capable graphics editor
for the sort of structured drawings more
commonly used in decent DTP produc-
tions, and if the standard takes off we
might even see established high-end pack-
ages such as Art Department Professional
taking HotLinks on board.
As it stands, HotLinks is a superb tool for
PageStream 2.2 users, and I can't recom-
mend it in terms too strong for those peo-
ple. For the rest of the Amiga world, and
the DTP area in particular, it Is the first
move in what could be a whole new area
of user friendly inter-program communica-
tions.
Depending on the level of support from
other software houses, HotLinks could
become a very important tool in applica-
tion areas such as CAD, databases, word-
processing, and DTP. If support isn't
forthcoming,, it will at least be an essentia)
add-on for all PageStream users- Rest
assured we'll be keeping you
informed.
HotLinks is a product of SoftLogik
Publishing Corporation
Phone: (OTOl ) 314 894 8608
Price; TEA
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Technical Help
Keyboard fix
I was interested in the letter from YHAIi
of Stratford as I too had a similar problem
with my keyboard. I'm happy to say I've
now fixed it, and that the problem was a
simple one.
All I did was open the Amiga,, turn the
keyboard over, and examine the under-
side. There's a plastic strip protecting the
solder joints, under which were a few
joints bent over and contacting with the
solder tracks below. I bent these out until
they were straight and my keyboard then
worked finel
Is there any chance of a free subscrip-
tion?
Ma/tin O'Donneli, Courtly Donegal, lire
No, but thanks for the tip.
Amibase copy
1 am a newcomer to the Amiga and hav-
ing bought your magazine I am trying to
use CoverDisk 29, most especially the
Amibase Pro II program, I seem to be
having difficulty copying this to a new
disk of its own.
I am using an A500 Pfus, and I'm com-
pletely baffled, I managed la copy Super
Duper to another disk and that works
fine.
Something else punks me. In the
Absolute Beginners article, you describe
Workbench as 2,04. I have only had my
machine for three months and mine is
Workbench 2,0. Is it out of date already?
jim tflwson, Loughborough
Many CoverDisk programs require a bit
of extra messing around when it
comes to copying them to other disks,
and Amibase Pro II fs no exception.
Usually, there'll be A font that's
needed, or a prefs file from the S:
directory, or something of that nature.
With Amibase, however, things are a
little more complicated,
To save taking three pages to
explain it, and a lot of hassle on your
side, probably the best solution to your
problem is to make a copy of your
CoverDisk and get rid of everything
you don't need.
just boot with the copy, click on the
directories you won't be needing, such
as Game of the Month and
Programming, then select Delete from
the Icons menu. This Should Clear
enough space for you to keep plenty of
data on the ravaged CoverDisk.
ARexx editor?
After reading your article on ARexx, I
decided to try it on my Amiga A500 Plus,
but as I have had my computer for only
six weeks, 1 soon ran into problems. You
mentioned that "ARexx scripts are writ-
ten using a text editor".
Could you please tell me if the text
Printer out of puff?
Computer cracking up?
We're here to help!
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Save your saes please - we can't reply personally
editor is part of the Workbench, and if so
where I can find it, or is it on a separate
disk, in which case can you give me the
name of the supplier?
P M Taylor, Prolan
The term "text editor" is given to any
program which is capable of loading
and saving text fifes, editing (chang-
ing) them, or enabling you to write
them. Vour Workbench 2.04 disk has a
text editor called "Ed", which isn't the
best available, but which will serve for
the purposes of typing in short ARexx
scripts.
Von can use Ed by using the Execute
Command option (or Shell) to Issue
the command:
ID (EI [.SHIP"
rexx, script can be any name you like,
as Ed won't kick up until it has a file
name. If rexx. script doesn't exist, Ed
will create It as a blank file, and you
can then type in your script. When you
save it, use the Save As option from
Ed's menu system and save the script
In the "rexxe" directory on your
Workbench 2.<H disk.
There are friendlier and more pow-
erful text editors available - one of the
best Is the shareware program QED.
This is available through many PD
libraries or on Amiga Computing's
CraphkStation disk.
Helpful soul
With reference Id a letter by C Glynn of
Reading in the January Issue, I ham an
A2000 with A20SS bridgeboard, and
would be willing to help him out with
the required installer software.
Secondly, with reference to M I
Alden's letter in the March issue, I also
have a CVP Impact series II hard card
with the ability to add 8Mb of RAM.
Recently I purchased 4Mb of Goldstar
SIMMs, which contain nine chips per
meg, and I had similar problems to Mr(s)
Alden,
I solved the problem by putting a
jumper in the position JT5 (which was
not mentioned in my instruction man-
ual) on the hard Card as well as setting
the jumpers as specified in the manual to
configure the RAM. Now, is there any
way I can configure my Amiga memory
to be used as memory on my A2088 PC
bridgeboard?
Paul Hooper, Elgin
Thanks for the answers on the CVP
problem. I'd still recommend you buy
the official GVP SIMMs, but for those
with access to other types, a bit of
experimenting with the jumper set-
tings can't do any harm.
As for using extra memory with your
bridgeboard, the only way of adding
RAM to your A2088 would be to buy a
PC RAM card and insert it In the PC
slot available beside your A206S. You
can't use normal Amiga memory,
On a brighter note, PC RAM cards
are quite cheap, so you should be able
to upgrade your bridgeboard without
breaking the bank. Try our sister maga-
zine PC Today for third-party peripheral
manufacturers' advertisements.
Drive problems
I currently own an Amiga A50O with a
Datel 512k expansion, Power 880B, and
the usual stuff. I bought the machine sec-
ond-hand about four months ago, but
am now finding that it's not all I imag-
ined it to be. Games which userJ to work
no longer da, I'm getting read/write
errors on disks, and games keep crashing
with a guru alert.
It's not a virus as I left the machine
unplugged overnight, removed all
peripherals, booted up B4itz for the &60&,
and now it won't load, simply giving the
"Insert in drive dfO:" requester.
I'm considering three courses of
action;
1 . Kill myself.
2. Kill the *&?>! who sold me this lemon.
3. Replace the internal drive with a Power
internal hard drive.
Which of these would you recommend?
Damiaf) Barrow, Charley
Hmm... If I recommended the first, I'd
have trouble sleeping at nights, the
second would probably be Illegal, and
the third would cost lots of money,
Not an easy choice.
Seriously, though, your best bet is
to replace the internal drive with a
new floppy from - to take a name
completely unprompted and out of the
blue - Power Computing. Before you
do, however, try a couple of checks
first.
If your machine Is second-hand,
there's no warranty to worry about, so
open it up and check to make sure that
the keyboard connector and Internal
drive ribbon connectors are both in
place properly and that neither have
been damaged or worn down through
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Technical Help
age. If these check out OK, you'd be
best to go for the replacement drive or
have the machine looked at by a rep-
utable repair company.
Not again!
Normal^ I buy Amiga Computing every
month, but when I bought issue 42 East
week, i realised it was going to be the
last.
The reason is that the CoverDisk was
infected with the Saddam virus, which
ruined a good halt of my software collec-
tion before I found out. Now I can't even
use my Amiga because I don't have
enough money to go out and buy a
decent virus killer.
Maybe you should put a warning on
the magazine telling people to check the
disk for viruses if yog can't be bothered
to check it for yourselves.
Dale Sates, Victoria, Auiiratio
The November 1991 issue did not have
a virus on the CoverDisk, and that'i
final!
judging from the number of letters
we've received concerning the issue,
it's dear that many readers find it diffi-
cult to tell the difference between a
virus and a virus killer. You say you can-
not afford to buy a vims killer, yet the
issue 42 disk contained Virus Checker
5.32, which at the time was the most
advanced Saddam killer available.
Every time we put a killer on the
disk, we get people contacting us
who've used the killer for the first time,
realised they've got a virus, and
assumed it was on our disk. Not true!
You probably had it for ages and didn't
realise until we saved the other half of
your software collection by giving you
Virus Checker.
CD ROM latest
I've heard that the release of the CD-
ROM drive for the Amiga is imminent,
and I wonder if you could answer some
questions on iL
1 . Does it really make the AJOO work just
like a CDTV, and do you need a spe-
cial control pad like the CDTV has?
2. Is it compatible with Kitkstart 1 .2?
3. If not, will a compatible version be
released, and will it cost more?
4. Does it need an ECS chip set?
5. Does (t have a Ui rough-port into which
I could plug my Action Replay Mk II
cartridge?
I've been reading your mag since issue
one, and it's easily the best, so I'm
expecting an answer!
Ian Heywood, Holyhead
As the A690/A570 (Commodore still
haven't confirmed what it's going to
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be called) is not available for test as I
write this, I can only give you the infor-
mation we have, augmented by a quick
telephonic visit to Commodore's engi-
neer!.
The CD-ROM drive will, in effect,
turn your A5G0 into a CDTV, because
CDTV is just a 1Mb ASOO with a CD
drive in a black box. You won't need a
special control pad, as the Amiga's
mouse and keyboard will do the job
just as well.
Compatibility with Kickstart 1.2
could be a problem. You can't auto-
boot from anything under 1 ,2, and the
CD-ROM drive may need to auto-boot
for certain software, such as commer-
cial games stuff. This isn't a definitive
answer, but I wouldn't be surprised to
find it will only function properly with
1.3 and above. Check with your dealer
before buying one. As for a Kickslart
1,2-specific version making an appear-
ance, forget it. Why not just buy a new
ROM chip and Kickstart sharer? The
Power Computing sharer can hold
three ROMs, so you could switch from
1.2 to 1.3, then 2.04 if you really
wanted to.
The CD-ROM drive should work with
a half meg Agnus chip, but as its soft-
ware will be so graphics intensive,
you're best to upgrade to an
ECS Agnus and 2Mb total memory
by fitting one of the memory cards
which allow the 1Mb chip RAM
conversion.
So far as I can tell, there's no
through-port on the CD-ROM drive as
yet The latest pre-production models
supplied to developers and
photographed for press releases have
no through-port, but that's not to
say Commodore won't include one at
the last minute. Remember that
the A59D hard drive didn't have
one either
Look out for final details on the CD-
ROM drive as we receive them.
PC software
for the last 1 9 months I have been doing
a computer course with Pitmans, and I've
been having trouble getting the software
we use to work or* my 1 Mb Amiga 500.
What f need to know is how to run these
program s, and where i can get informa-
tion to help me use them on the ASOO.
All the programs in the course are IBM-
compatible and don't run on the Amiga,
The main ones are WordStar 6 and
Sage Accounting, both of which come on
two 3. Sin disks. I have one or two others,
but these are the main two for
the course.
Halving retired as a weWer due to back
problems and claiming invalidity benefit,
I don't have much money, so bear this in
mind.
SLV Candy, fihjfdifey
Normally, I'd suggest a PC emulator as
this piece of equipment would enable
your ASOO to pretend it's an IBM.
However, the hardware route will cost
anything up to £200 and over, so the
only option on terms of cost is to try a
software emulator.
There's a relatively new and quite
good emulator called IBemulator,
whkh is available in demo form from
the better PD libraries.
Once you've tried It out, you can opt
to pay the shareware fee to the author,
which shouldn't be more than about
B0. Try Softvllle PD or NBS, both of
which are fairly supportive PD libraries,
and both gf which should have this
program on a Fred Fish disk.
You may find that the speed of your
IBM programs Is fairly awful, and
there'll be very limited support for
graphics, but as long as your main uses
are wordprocessing and spreadsheets,
you won't need the whistles and bells.
New hard drive needed
I have a fairly old Amiga S00 (Kickstart 1.2), with half meg
memory upgrade, external floppy, and Star itlO colour printer.
I use this mostly for games and a rapidly increasing amount of
wordprocessing and spreadsheet applications (Kindwords and
Superplan) due to the acquisition of a new business. I would
now like to upgrade my system, possibly adding a hard drive
and a new wordprocessor.
Which hard drive would be best? I haven't got a fortune and
want it to take a lot of hard use with as much speed as I
can get.
In order to effectively use a hard drive, exactly what modifi-
cations should I make to the ASOO?
I understand that a solder track has to be drilled to
enable me to upgrade to the latest specifications. I notice
that Kick 1.3 ROMs are available, but what about the
Workbench disks? What about upgrading to ASOO Plus
spec?
Which wordprocessor would you recommend? I need one
with the ability to draw boxes around text to create
forms for use in my business, as well as the usual
mailmerge, spell checker, and thesaurus facilities,
Hugh Fdworrfj, Auchnacroah, Isle of Mull
The best value hard drive for your purposes is probably the
AS90 variant supplied by Hobbyte [0727 5600S). This has a
52Mb Quantum mechanism and space for 2Mb fast RAM. If
you need a faster drive or greater RAM expandability, go for
the CVP Impact Series II from Silica (081 309 1111), but
expect to pay a bit extra.
You won't need to make any alterations to your mother-
board to run a hard drive, but if your want It to auto-boot,
you'll have to buy a Kickstart 1.3 upgrade kit. These can be
purchased from CPC Ltd (0772 S55034), but possibly your
best bet is to go for a ROM sharer.
Power Computing's (0234 834488) ROM sharer can be
purchased with I.J or 2.04 ROMs and if you buy the three-
way switch version, you can have your 1.2 ROM sitting
alongside these two for total compatibility.
Workbench disks can he bought from CPC, and the ECS
chip set should be available soon from Commodore, though
certain third-party retailers are offering the Super
Denise and Super Agnus chips already. See the small ads
for these.
The track drilling you refer to is probably that needed to
upgrade to 1Mb chip RAM. Don't bother with this unless
you're going to use graphics-intensive software, as you'd
need to buy a 1.5Mb RAM hoard and Fatter Agnus chip as
well.
If your wordprocessing needs will centre around busi-
ness-orientated labels, invoices, and so on, then you should
go for Protext S.S. Pro text has a fairly easy to use line draw-
ing mode, which is well covered in the tutorial video we
reviewed last month.
Amor can be reached on 0733 68909 and will be happy
to supply both products.
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The explosion in Amiga 24-bil
technology over the past year
has, si we predicted in early
1991, caused a revolution in the Amiga
world. Anyone who says any different has
been reading the wrong magazine since
[hen, as even the most casual Amiga
Computing reader will have noticed that
the amount of tovefage in this area has
increased exponentially.
For a machine which was once a good
amateur video platform to suddenly start
mating appearances at the heart of the
most sophisticated broadcast setups, and
to produce award-winning animations
and sequences foe television in the space
of less than 18 months, is what even the
most reticent among us have to acknowl-
edge as a revolution.
The problem with revolutions is that
more often than not they run out of
steam because the initial feverish enthusi-
asm dies, leaving no more than a bane
shell of rhetoric and idealism which can't
sustain much for long. In the case of the
ageing Amiga revolution - and let'; face
it, we're well past the *|une Days" -
there are now as many Standards as there
are 24-bit cards.
We've seen the various 24-bil paint
packages migrating from one card to
another, which is a start, and software
houses such as AS DC (Art Department
Professional) attempting to support as
many cards as possible within one piece
of software. Now there's a first move
towards a proper standard.
Standard interface
Two respected US companies. Digital
Micronics and Progressive Peripherals,
got together at the Denver developers'
conference last year with one aim in
mind - to produce a standard software
interface for the Texas Instruments 340x0
family of graphics processors. We've seen
little of these newish chips in the UK as
yet, but you can rest assured that they
will soon become as common a
technophrase as 68030.
The TMS34020 chip is a dedicated
high-performance graphics processor
designed to make graphics operations as
fast as possible. It runs at 40MHz and its
32-bit architecture allows a stunning 40
MFLOPS (millions of floating point opera-
tions per second).
Digital Micronics' Resolver board was
the first Amiga peripheral to utilise the
TMS chips, in the shape of a 60MH;
54010. The second is Progressive
Peripherals and Software's Rembrandt
board, unleashing the 34020/34082
combination on us, So Where's the soft-
ware? Enter Sage, stage right.
Sage (Standard Amiga Graphic
Extension) has been jointly developed by
DMI and PPS to provide a platform on
which software houses can build applica-
tions for the 340x0 boards as easily and
quickly as possible. It consists of a central
Sage library plus a range of supporting
libraries, and is based on Texas
Instruments' own TlGA interface,, which
is widely used in the PC world.
The core library consists of over 1 20
functions which programmers can use in
their Sage-compatible software to take
some of the hard work out of a great
many standard functions, such as
init_Cufsor, Set_cursor_xy, point, seed,
and so on.
All 1 20-odd functions have been opti-
mised to make them as fast as possible in
use, with the result that Sage software,
considering it will be funning on 340x0s,
should achieve blistering speeds.
Direct access
Many functions allow direct access to
the built-in 340x0 hardware calls,
enabling hardware clipping, animation,
and a host of other advanced operations.
The user can also develop his or her own
libraries and executable functions utilis-
ing the 34082's rendering engine so that
as much of the time-intensive 3D process
as possible is taken care of by the hard-
ware.
Libraries written specifically for the
Rembrandt board will include support
for multiple monitor setups, for those
huge video displays you see at rock con-
certs, parallel processing routines and
alpha channel control of video effects.
A new DMI Re solver board offering
spaces for up to four 340x0s which, inci-
dental^, will happily work, in parallel, is
claimed to be 1 5,000 times faster at ren-
dering a 3D object than a standard
Amiga. This sort of performance opens
the way for real time 24-bit animation
and the most impressive virtual reality
systems you could ask for. And there's
more.
Industries which require high level 3D
modelling, such as the pharmaceutical,
medical, and defence sectors to name
but a few, form one market-place which
the Amiga has hitherto failed to pene-
trate and on which PPS and DMI have
their sights firmly set.
With the sort of raw power available-
through Sage-type graphics boards, the
Amiga becomes the ideal low-cost plat-
form for some Df the most advanced
Jlte Htitibrandt
booni gflrrt
n^Miifli Ji if grapMfi
power at ihr
rtiativeif lew price of
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Graphics
applications in the world. With the
cheapest pseudo-24-bit cards costing
more than a good hard drive, most
home users will be unaffected by the 24-
bit revolution. However, as more and
more people buy DCTv's or AVideo
cards, and as the high-end manufactur-
ers get their acts in order, the Amiga
could snatch an ever-increasing share of
the TV and video professional market.
Standards like Sage might not be the
panacea the manufacturers would have
us believe, but they should help avert a
situation where we can't see the graph-
ics for the graphics cards.
For more information on Sage, and
details on the soon -to-be-re teased
developers' pack, contact Progressive
Peripherals on (0101) 103 325 4144
or Digital Micronics on [0101) 619
931 8554.
A wise
man cometh
What is Sage, and will it develop into the Amiga's
high-end graphics standard?
Why a new standard?
The Amiga 1000 was released in 1985 and Its 4,096 colours
were I show stopper. Since then, however, Commodore
have allowed the official standard for Amiga graphics to
languish at its now seven-year-old level.
A standard PC in 1985 might have been using EGA or
CGA to produce 16 colour graphics. The standard PC in
1992 is using 256 Colours from a palette of 256,000 and the
latest cards, costing not much more than £100. can offer
32,000 colours onscreen without the sort of HAM-style
ludging used by the Amiga.
In effect, the Amiga is a 32-colour machine which can
employ extra hallbrite (.EHS) or hold and modify (HAM)
trickery lo produce extra colours. For most software, how-
ever, this sort of messing around slows things -down too
much, and HAM is virtually useless for anylhirui older than
static backdrops in any case.
Third-party manufacturers are now producing their own
standards, albeit with Commodore's blessing, and
Commodore seem set, at long last, on upgrading the stan-
dard Amiga's yraphio lata tftli year. The AJ0O0 should
have at least 16- bit graphics, possibly 24-bil, and there are
rumours at targe about the possibility of a Super VGA style
graphics card for all Amicjas. If this happens, it will be the
biggest thing to hit the Amiga scene alt year, and will
advance the Amiga's cause much more effectively than any
68040 card could ever hope to. Watch this space.
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TutorialfTj
As the Absolute Be ginned series
progresses, I'll be stopping now
and then to take a quick look at
the ground we've covered so far in case
anyone is feeling a bit lost or has just
joined our AmigaDOS tour bus. This is as
good a time as any to review what we've
learned over the past two months.
Our first instalment introduced the
Workbench environment, double clicking
on icons, opening drawers, and getting to
know the menu options available. From
this lesson, readers should have grasped
the basics of creating new drawers, renam-
ing them, dragging icons around the
screen, and most of the usual "dick-and-
point" Workbench operations.
Part two of the series concentrated on
the essential directories most Amiga DOS
disks contain and, brief ty, the way these
are used by the Amiga when it boots a
disk. We also looked at how to LIST the
contents of an entire disk, how to find
information on the size of files and how
much space there is left an a disk.
Over the next few months we'll look at
groups of AmigaDOS commands one after
the other and examine how they won* in
relation to some practical project. Before
we begin such a detailed examination,
however, we'll find out how to put
together the most basic auto-booting disk.
Starting with a fresh floppy, or one
whose contents you can safely trash, our
disk will have to be formatted and
equipped with the directories and files
AmigaDOS needs to load a minimal
Workbench, The first job, then, is Id format
the floppy.
Most of what well do from now on will
This month's
jargon
Script file
An Ascii text file of any size which
contains a series of AmigaDOS com
numb. Script files can be thought
of as primitive programs, but
they're best treated as an automatic
way of entering a lot of commands
at the Shell.
Ascii
Tim stands for the American
Standard Code for Information
Interchange, and is the internation-
ally accepted standard for text files.
Amigas, STs, Macs, and PCs all Sup
port Ascii text, and all wordproces-
sors and text editors can save files
in Ascii format.
Ascii text contains no format ting
information such as bold text,
underline and so on - it is just raw
text in the form of code numbers
which stand for the same letters on
most keyboards.
happen in the Shell, so double dick on the
Shell icon and wait for your input window
to appear, Once it has, drag the window
out to full screen size using either the drag
gadget in the bottom right-hand comer
(Will .3) or the shrink/expand gadget in
the top right (WG2.04),
Now type the command:
FMMT HIVE PFD; I ME HTHSK
and insert your fresh floppy when the
Amiga asks for it. Try not to format your
Workbench disk! Once the format is com-
plete, eject My Disk and re-insert your
Workbench disk ready to start the con-
struction job. If you have art external drive,
now is the time to put MyDisk in it to save
you a lot of disk swaps later on.
I'm afraid that iingle drive owners will
be forced info quite a bit of faffing around
with disk swaps. This is unavoidable when
you copy files from one disk to another an
such a system. The only remedy is to pur-
chase a second floppy drive.
Generally, as long as you tell the Amiga
the name of the disk you are trying to
copy something to, it will ask for that disk
by name and wait until you insert it If you
study the commands we'll be using, you'll
notice that we always refer to "MyDisk:"
instead of just "DFIr" or "Df2:", which
should make life a bit easier for single drive
users.
Automatic
Don't forget that a disk's name con-
tains both its identifier [MyDisk) and its
device symbol (the colon ":"). When you
name a floppy, you don't have to add the
colon - Workbench automatically refers to
"MyDisk" as "MyDfeic" when reading data
from it or writing to It
Similarly, alt system directories are
treated in the same way. The DEVS direc-
tory is called "DEVS:* by AmigaDOS,
because it is one of those essential directo-
ries on an AmigaDOS disk. If any of this
still causes you to wake up at night in a
cold sweat, take another look at last
month's column where we covered the
subject of such "logical devices" in more
depth.
For now, double drive owners can
ignore many of the references I'll make to
disk swaps, as the rest of the column will
be angled at those stuck with only one
flexible friend. With MyOisk in your second
drive. Workbench will always have
"MyDisk;" agitable and will never ask for
it.
To make a start, now that Workbench is
safely back in the internal drive, we'll copy
the commands we are going to use to the
RAM disk. The reason for this is that it will
cut down on disk swaps and hassle, so
type the following commands one at a
time:
HP' :opt to m-.
co-pt mim tj im
topr mutt td m
Stevie Kennedy
creates an auto-
booting disk from
the ground up
Users of older Workbench 1 .3 Amigas will
also have to type:
because the CD command is not built in
to the older machines as it is in the new
A50Q Plus.
Now type CD RAM: to
make the RAM disk our cur-
rent directory, If you've fol-
lowed things so far, the
commands CD, COPY,
MAKEDI.fi, and INSTALL will
be available direct from
RAM;, which will have the
secondary effect of speeding
things up, as they won't
have to be read in off your
Workbench disk every time
they're used.
For a bask disk, you'll
need three system drawers.
These are "C", where
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Tutorial
AmigaDOS commands are kepi,, "DEVS",
which contains your system-preferences file,
and "S", which holds the startup-sequence-
You should be familiar with these Hies if
you followed last month's column, but to
recap, the system-configuration file con-
tains preferences- settings such as your
screen colours, and the startup-sequence is
j file of commands executed one at a time
when the Amiga boots up.
Whoa! What's all this about startup this
and system that? If you're feeling confused,
think of the startup-sequence as just a series
of commands you would type in at the
Shell, because that's all it really is. It is a text
file you couid edit or create in a wordpro-
tessor or text editor.
Files of this kind are called "batch files"
m the typically romantk K. world, because
the commands in the Tile are dealt with as a
batch. In Amiga circles, they're usually
referred to as "script files*. It doesn't matter
what you call them as long as you don't
confuse yourself.
Back to the construction site! Create the
system directories I mentioned earlier by
inserting MyDisk in the internal drive and
typing:
HAKEDIt ITIUKiC
MKEHt UTtlSKiSEV
kedic mm
beginners
f you cast your mind back to last month's
column, you'll remember that the first thing
the Amiga does when you put a new floppy
m the drive is check the boot block. Our
formatted disk will have a boot block full of
garbage, but it will need a proper
Amiga DOS boot block.
The- command to create such a boot
block is INSTALL. To use it, type:
i' MyDisk is still in the internal drive, the
boat block will be installed in a second or
two.
Right, we've got a formatted disk with
the correct boot block and three empty
system directories. Our next job is to fill
those directories with just enough files for
the disk to boot. Replace your Workbench
disk in DFO; and type CD SY5; to make it
your current directory. Now type:
HPT DW^rsTEfl-tMfKUMUDN III BAR:
CJPt C:L0lkHB T4 1Mb
Workbench 1.3 owners will also have to
type:
COFT EiH»eU T5 lift;
as, unlike WB2.Q4 users, they don't have
the ENDCLI command built in to their
machine's Kickstart ROM.
Notice that we don't have a startup-
You can unr TDM Awn
the Qmphttitotlon to
make ilfr voikr
sequence yet? This is easily accomplished
with the command:
This month's commands
ENDCLI - This is a simple little command which is used to close a Shell or CLI win-
dow. WB2.04 users don't need it as they have close gadgets on their Shell windows,
iind ENDCLI Is built in to Kickstart in the first place.
INSTALL - A command for writing an AmigaDOS boot block to the disk Df your
choice. Use it by typing the command;
INSTALL OHM H'lr
Where n Is Q for your internal drive or 1 r 2, and 3 for external drives.
LOADWFS - A very small command which tells Kickstart to load a Workbench screen.
H acts as a simple triggering mechanism, and all the real work is carried out by
Kickstart.
MAKEDIR - Used to create a new directory (drawer) in the current directory. The
new directory won't have an icon, but in all other respects it is identical to any other
drawer on your disk, Yoo can use MAKEDIR to create a new drawer anywhere on
the disk by typing the complete pathname, For example:
PHKEDtR DI-lhimLSnESj'VERUSKlLLEilS.'ttOCTI
would create a drawer three levels down into the directory structure.
The Workbench text editor will attempt to
find a file in the RAM disk called "startup-
sequence", and when it doesn't Find one,
will create it as a blank file and open it for
you to add some text.
We'll wiry need two lines for this file.
They are:
LMMfE
EHbCLE
Type these in at the top of the ED screen,
then save the file to RAM. To do this on an
old Amiga, press the Esc key, then X, then
Return, On WB2.04 Amfejas you can select
Save from ED's Project menu.
As we forced ED to open a blank file
called RAMrstartup-sequence in the first
place, the new two-line test file will be
saved automatically with the correct name.
You have just created your first custom
startup-sequence, but before you start
congratulating yourself, you' If have to
copy it to where it's needed, which is the
MyDisk:5 directory. Type CD RAM: to go
back to the RAM disk, then type:
art stsiem-cmeigur,it;<hi t& iuishiiew
C3PT LOANS TO HTDISliE
COPT EIDtLI TO AVDISK:!
■::■=!■ smiup-s mint to Pram
After all this, you should have the bare
bones of an auto-booting disk. To test it,
just reboot with it and you'll see how
quickly it boots up.
This is because the startup-sequence,
which on some disks can be of mammoth
proportions, is very short. We'll be filling
up the disk and the startup-sequence
throughout the series, so don't lose
MyDisk if you want to make the most of
future columns.
Let's take a look at what we've just put
on MyDisk, The ENDCLI command is a
simple device for closing Shell or Q.I win-
dows, and is built into Kickstart 2.04. Only
those of you with Kickstart 1 .3 should have
the command In MyDisk's C: directory.
LOADWfl is the aptly-named command
to load Workbench. If this sounds strange,
considering it is such a small command -
1 k or so - remember that what you see an
your screen is largely thanks to the built-in
libraries and system resources to be Found
in your Kickstart chip.
The menus at the top of the Workbench
screen, for example, are generated from
hardware when the LOADWfl command
tells Kickstart to do so. IOADWB is just a
trigger for the Kickstart ROM to load sys-
tem resources into memory.
Activated
What happens when your newly con-
structed startup-sequence executes is that
the basic Workbench resources are acti-
vated, then the Shell window in which
startup-sequence was executed is closed
down so you can see the Workbench
screen that's just been activated.
If you wanted to keep the Shell window
open once Workbench is loaded up, you'd
simply remove the ENfXU command from
your startup-sequence. Alternatively, you
can put a semicolon in front of it, which
tells AmigaDOS to ignore everything else
on that line. This is a handy way of quickly
altering your AmigaDOS scripts, as you can
restore the startup-sequence to its original
form by just removing the semicolon,
I've waffled on just about as much as I
dare on the subject of auto-booting disks.
It will all seem a bit complicated at first,
but then so did setting up your VCR to
record Dallas, Try it a couple Cf times, and
you soon get the hang of it.
Next month we'll take the first steps
towards filling MyDisk with our favourite
commands and utilities., and in the pro-
cess examine the Workbench devices and
libraries from closer range.
Handy tips
Use the semicolon, Luke!
When you alter a startup-sequence to
take out a line, just put a semicolon at
the start of the line, When an Amiga
sees a semicolon, il skips to the next
line, so you can keep the old command
and reactivaite it at any time by deleting
the semicolon.
Your own script file
If you're feeling adventurous, you can
assemble ail the commands we used to
create MyDisk in a single script file,
which you can then EXECUTE to auto-
matically produce a blank, auto-booting
disk any time you need one. We'll be
looking at the EXECUTE command later
in the series.
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ARexx 1 38
Strings are incredibly important
in ARexx. Alex Gian gives a
practical guide to how to use
them
DTV 141
Navigate the marketing claims
and counterclaims and get Into
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In the last two articles we saw an outline of the
elements of ARM*, and how to use functions
and macros to make programming easier and
more "modular". Now we will look at the
strongest feature of ARexx, its handling at strings.
A string is simply any sequence of characters
(bytes). Whereas many languages handle different
data types - integers, floating paint numbers,
characters and so on - in different ways, ARexx has
only one kind of internal structure to store data -
the simple string. Now, treating all data as strings
does slow down computation- a little bit, but it has
the advantage of making data handling very easy!
Every single data unit, whether you mean it to
be a number, a word, a sentence, a 4-byte
machine address or the consents of a whole file, is
stored by ARexx as a string. The operations that
tan be done on ARexx strings are very bask, and
easily understood.
Much like their more worldly counterparts,
strings can be strung together to form longer ones
(concatenated), cut up into smaller bits, or have
themselves (or a part of themselves) measured.
Operations that perform arithmetic or specific
system jobs on data must first convert them to a
suitable format. However strings are very well
suited to doing any kind of text operation, and
here ARera really comes into its own.
The instructions and functions provided by
ARexx will let you perform just about any opera-
tion you care to name on a string except, perhaps,
tie it in knots. These operations make string pro-
cessing extremely easy, whether you are preparing
command strings for AmigaDOS, reformatting a
data file, or preparing text data for display.
The only thing you have to bear in mind is that
ARexx strings are limited to a maximum; length of
65,536 bytes. Longer strings must be stored in
more than one variable.
Here we will deal with two extremely useful
aspects of ARexx string handling - built-in func-
tions and parsing. They are easy enough for
beginners to grasp their elements in a very short
time,
Function operations on strings are numerous
functions that act directly on strings. They mea-
sure them, compare them, search them for ele-
ments, transpose them, reverse them, and join
them up.
LerwjtKstririg), Compare(str1 ,str2), Delstr(str,ele-
mentno [, length]), !ndex(str, pattern [,fromposi-
tion]), Lastpos(pa Item, str[,f romp o si tion] and
Trim(string) are some of them.([] denote optional
args),
Basic programmers wilt also recognise
Left(str,len) and Right(s,l), which return the left
and rightmost elements of a string. Experiment
with them and use your imagination.
In addition there are (unctions that treat a string
as a sentence, and perform operation on the indi-
vidual words, rather than the characters, Examples
are Subword(str,pos,len), Word(str,nth) and
Wordlength{str,nth) etc.
Here we will use the function Wards[str), which
returns the number of words in a string, to write a
very simple word-count macro. It is not a very
sophisticated program, eg it does not check that
Alex Gian hots up
the pace with a look
at ARexx's handling
of strings
the file is indeed a document, and is limited to files
under 64k, but considering that the core program
is just over one line long, who's complaining?
You could enhance this program and perhaps
add a file-requester like the one described below,
to make it really useful:
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re id * .'
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uy "Tht-'e are " wrditstf mgS ' uords in thu
docuitnt"
That's all there is to it.
Parsing is the process by which data - in this
case, strings - is read meaninglully and placed in
some sensible order. In ARexx there are various
sources for a parsed stnng, and also a number of
different ways of parsing,
The most general form of reading a string
meaningfully into variables is the PARSE instruc-
tion. It is very flexible and powerful, and we will
look at it in some detail. It is used as follows:
This is a lot simpler than it may appear. First, the
instruction needs a keyword that specifies where
the input string is coming from. Without this key-
word it is invalid. The acceptable input source key-
words are PULL, EXTERNAL, ARC, VAR, VALUE,
SOURCE, NUMERIC and VERSION.
PULL indicates that the input string is read from
the console. EXTERNAL has practically the same
meaning. By the way, you can specify a console
prompt when a string is PULLed by using the
OPTIONS instruction with the keyword PROMPT -
remember we used OPTIONS RESULTS last time to
pass the value returned by a command to the vari-
able RESULT. Try this:
n "options sraip't 'T«, o i«tEt*
ptilL *
par tt
ARG means the string is the argument supplied
to the command or function. VAR followed by a
variable's name indicates that the input is the
string of the variable itself, ie if a = "hi" then:
PAiSE m
makes b = "hi".
VALUE is used to indicate that the parsing siring
involves an evaluation. WITH is used to separate
the expression being parsed from the template, for
instance:
mx urn > iriTB h
Let's look at an example of using a program with an ARexx interface. The
program is OoekDJ, a freely distributable utility whose main job is to
accelerate the mouse, provide a dock and manage screens, windows and
soon.
However it also has a number of interesting features, including the
provision of two file requesters, a "Yes/No" requester and a key mapping
function, all controllable from ARexx.
We have found the keymap function extremely useful, as we maintain
two separate keymaps, one with utility material, address strings and so
on, and one with a customised keyboard to save typing when we are pro-
gramming.
Using the custom command LOADKEY5 we can switch at will. Of
course we could have created proper Amiga keymaps, like those used in
the startup-sequence by SetMap, That would have been theoretically
faster, but like thii we can change the keymap at any Instant, simply by
editing the ClockDj keymap file, and reloading it.
ClockD] is a quite a large program, and takes up a bit more memory
than it should, but Its excellent features make it worthwhile. In any case it
will be very useful even if only from an experimental point of view. Read
Its documentation for full details of what it can do, and have fun experi-
menting.
Finally, we will look at a little macro that adds the C ED requester sup-
plied by ClockD| to our wordcount program above:
■ [tin
- rsq.«.'
OK, in what language can you do the above operation quicker? if you do
not want to have to set up an ADDRESS, and send all the commands
every time you want to use the file requester, you can even write a func-
tion - myCEDQ - which could accept as arguments any value you wanted
to change, such as the title, current dir and so on.
It will do this automatically, and store it in your REXX; directory. You
could then call the fie requester from any ARexx program, simply by
calling, eg:
is a trivial example that has the same effect as the
example in VAR above, VALUE can be used to
great effect when the parsed string itself con tains
information as to how it should be parsed - we
will not look at it in loo much detail now,
Finally, SOURCE, NUMERIC and VERSION are
used to parse specific information about the Sys-
tem.
PARSE SOURCE comOftfun resORnot places info
on whether the program was called as a function
or as a command in the first variable, and whether
it returns a value or not in the second,
PARSE. NUMERIC digits fuzi form yields infor-
mation on the numeric status settings, and PARSE
VERSION ARsxk version cpu mpu video frequency
gives information on the current version and the
system.
The instruction may also take the optwnal key-
word UPPER. This converts the input string to
uppercase. If used it must be the first keyword
specified. In fact, the PULL and ARC instructions,
which we have already seen in previous articles,
are just shorthand for PARSE UPPER ARC and
PARSE UPPER PULL
The iast part of this instruction, the "target-
template*', will specify what is to happen to the
input string, It may be as simple as a single vari-
able into which the whole input string gets
copied, or quite a complex structure with many
variables, each receiving some specified pari of the
string.
There are three ways to parse a string. They
have jargon names, but don't let this put you off.
We will illustrate them here with examples that
should make their use very clear. When Parsing by
tokenisation, the string is parsed into the supplied
tokens.
Let us assume that the argument to a macro is
the String "Hello there, everybody":
Any blanks in the source string are lost when we
parse by tokenisation.
Parsing by pattern matching is when specific
characters that are known to occur in the source
string are used to separate the elements. For
instance in our previous example:
fine irg i "," t "bfl' c '* a is H lilt» thirf, b
ii **Ytry" r t is 'if *■'
Parsing by position is probably the easiest: of all
to understand in theory, although the notation
may he a bit tricky at first. Basically all you are
doing is specifying the string positions to use. Here
are some examples. Assume str ■ "abcdefghi-
jklmnop":
Parst v*r itr 1 • ( t 7 t t$ 4 /' s ii "*bc' b
ii Mif t ii 'ghijklM" g Ii '»>* V
Here the numbers act as absolute position marker?
between which the numbers are read. Another
example:
Far st v*r *tr 5 * <> Ii b 14 i* 1 U "iljh' b it
■Li' *t
The above examples are with absolute numeric
values, but we could also have relative values - the
notation for this is a + or - prefix:
rtrti »t Hr 2 a *3 ■ ♦! s
Ii "tfpHj' e ii 'iifcLinop"
An = prefix indicates absolute position, and can be
used in evaluated positions.
Here is a useful illustration of a combination of
the above methods. Suppose you have a variable
called path which contains a string that is a full
AmigaDOS file specification, such as;
C-FD jEuOJ-n.-susdi r2/s.wbdir3^o(rr*Tle'
You can easily get the device name if you pattern
match the ":", and you could then do an iterative
loop to pattern match every "t", until you got the
name of every subdirectory and of the file.
This method is acceptable, but if you only want
the name of the file you are doing a lot of extra
work for nothing. Since the purpose of ARexx is to
make things easy, there is a quicker way. Use the
LastposO function to get: the position of the last
7" in the string and then read the value from that
position onward. Here's what it looks like:
Next time, we will look at the control structures
and also use Aftexx to create some graphics
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I ft about time we held out the olrve branch
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tive guide lo the art of Amiga-based desktop
video.
For regulars this may sound like a case of
teaching old dags old tricks. Nevertheless, the
old guard could still be in for the odd surprise as
we run down the essentials and desirables which
the would-be videophile needs, or should be
looking to aspire to in the future.
The good news for the average beginner with
no more than a basic Amiga and the associated
free software is that they already have the neces-
sary kit to produce impressive video; graphics.
To get your foot in the door, ail you require is
a modulator, D Paint, a video and a suitable
length of phono- cable - assuming your videD
supports phono - with which to connect the
Amiga, modulator combination and the afore-
mentioned VCR,
The Amiga is the machine for video applica-
tions, used by amateurs and broadcast-quality
professionals the world over. The only difference
between you and them is the amount of cash
spent on enhancing the output of the machine,
whether that be through expensive hardware or
additional software.
Premier machine
A glimpse at any video magazine instantly
confirms the Amiga's status as the premier DTV
machine. Pages of related hardware and soft-
ware fill both advertising and editorial alike in a
desperate attempt to cajole the punters onto the
one true path. A case of the blind leading the
blind if ever there was one...
After you've stretched both your Amiga,
DPaint, and modulator combination to their log-
ical extreme, the next job is to start on the
sometimes rocky road of the upgrade path. This
is where the beginner can soon become lost in a
wilderness of marketing claims and counter
claims, unfathomable techno-jargon and the
Paul Austin's hints and tips, dos and don'ts and
essential info - a dab hand guide to DTV...
confusing array of available formats, which make
video one of the most baffling areas of interest in
the repertoire of the Amiga.
The most sensible step isn't to jump headlong
into the world of 5-VH5, Hi-B, U-Matic, Hi-Band
and the like, the reason being that you're likely to
find yourself marooned. Admittedly you can still
copy your creations onto standard VHS but that
defeats the object just a tad, as you're certain to
lose a lot of what you've paid for in the process.
The key to success is Id build up your system
and software collection first. By the time you've
mastered both you'll be in a position to really
exploit the increased clarity that the more expen-
sive formats can offer.
The first purchase for the majority is likefy to
be a titler. For the budget buyer either Home
Titler from HB Marketing Dr The Big Alternative
Scroller from Alternative Image are perfect, with
TEAS perhaps tipping the balance in the quality
stakes.
tf you're a bit belter off you could try ScalalOO
- an impressive if slightly light-hearted titling sys-
It's second nature to the Amiga
An obvious question is "what, if anything, makes the Amiga
so much better than the opposition"? I'm afraid there isn't a
short answer as there are a whole range of factors which
make the machine ideal for the job.
Having said that, the feature which stands head and shoul-
ders above the rest is the machine's capacity to output an
interlace signal via the machine's own custom video chip.
This alone sets it apart from the rest, as the PCs and Macs of
this world need all manner of hardware enhancement to
achieve what to the Amiga comes as second nature.
In clear the air a little, a quick paragraph on Interlace is in
order. Interface equals video and TV - it's llteraffy that simple.
Both systems rely on the interlace effect which doubles the
resolution of the screen by alternating between two fields 25
times a second.
K you're unlucky enough to freeze a video at an inoppor-
tune moment, this effect becomes all to apparent as the two
elements of the frozen image alternate, usually with migraine-
inducing consequences. The second feature that sets the
machine apart is its capacity to provide its own sync putse.
Generated internally, this is then output as part of the video
signal.
Because of this priceless asset there's no initial need lor an
external sync pulse generator, which again is a prerequisite
for DTV on other machines and an expensive addition in the
form of dedicated hardware,
The final internal advantages concerns the machine's
socialist architecture and its ability to multitask two more
options which the opposition can't match and at best strug-
gle to emulate,
socialist architecture enables the machine to co-ordi-
nate a myriad of tasks with incredible speed to produce stun-
ning results. Multitasking allows the user to employ aM
manner of art, animation, music, and titling packages simulta-
neously, as opposed to the constant quitting and reloading
that plague other machines.
Memory question
Once armed with the basics and a suitable
litler it's tempting to delve straight into the
bank account and invest in high-end soft-
ware applications. Although very tempting,
I strongly suggest you consider investing in
some extra RAM first.
Almost all the available DTV packages
rely heavily on extra HAM - even D Paint suf-
fers badly as an animation tool without a bit
more room to move. Without sufficient
space you not only won't be able to apply
bigger programs properly but if you do
make an attempt, it's likely you'll need to
employ crash editing to complete your pro-
duction - not recommended.
The only potential investment that rivals
the essential extra RAM is a genlock. With
this particular beastie your work will really
start to shine, but to find out more I'm
afraid you'll have to wait until next month
for the next thrilling instalment of this two-
part special.
tern. It's Ideal for home use, but perhaps a little
flippant for serious documentary style produc-
tions. Having said that, it boasts a bucketful of
special effects and is worth a closer look if you
want more than just a bog standard scrolling
message.
ff you fall into the very well off bracket there's
a choice ol two packages, either Scata or
Broadcast Titler 2. Scala is a more advanced ver-
sion of its little brother ScalaSOO, To be honest
Scala isn't a true titler, it's a multimedia presenta-
tion system which does a good job of doubling
as a titler.
Broadcast Titler 2, how-
ever, has no such preten-
tions. It concentrates
solely on titling and
employs its own fonts
and optional effects to
add a considerable
amount of style to any
production.
Upgrades includes extra
fonts and font conversion
software, which allows
you to convert standard
Amiga fonts to BTZ's anfi-
aliased counterparts. The
only real fault is its inabil-
ity to multitask - a real
problem when the soft-
ware collection starts to
build.
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All in array
Margaret Stanger looks at handling Ascii text for C programmers
This programming page is mainly far C
programmers, who have been a little
neglected lately, Tti€ support disk con-
tains a program to read data from an Ascii input
file., process it, and produce an Ascii output file
with the data tastefully arranged for printing or
display.
The input data is a file with a number of
records. Each record has at least three lines of
data - a narn€, possibly a phone number, -and
several lines of address, The lines vary in length,
and are separated from each other by a comma,
but any chosen delimiter will do. There is a new-
line character at the end ot each record, and
there can be any number of records In the file.
An example of a record in the input file is:
record would appear on the output file as:
|}Bii«n,4it,U5A
I
A large array space is made available lor the data
from each record. The array starts at the address
buffer, and allows for up to 30 lines of up to 30
characters. The name goes into the first line, the
phone number into the second, and 50 on,
The record in the input example would be
stored in the array as:
Itaiftn
i Hilt
1 its
I Phone
111*
1 Mrrss 1
1
1 itt
This program assumes that all the records obey
the rules, and do not have too many lines or too
many characters in a line. Some care has to be
taken to make sure that the program is stable if
the data is faulty.
Unpredictable
An extra long record must not be allowed to
read in forever, as it would start overwriting
code and data when it got to the end of the
array - the result would be unpredictable. The
extra code in the readfileQ routine is to trap
rogue data -with an extra long line, or with too
many lines.
The output routine sends data to the output
file several bytes at a time. A print buffer the
same size as a line of print is set up and filled
with spates. A character string to be output to
this buffer can be placed exactly in the print
position, and data can be lined up with the cor-
responding heading,
Data strings, literals and punctuation can be
placed in this way and the whole line sent to the
output file when it has been completed, Newline
and form feed characters are sent straight to the
file when required, Page, data and time informa-
tion are also sent to the output file. The example
pggi 1 Lilt «1 Jddr'ssps
Hon Jan 20 13:25:4] |
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MdrtiS
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There is a way to pass command line parame-
ters or arguments to a program when it begins
executing. When main() is called to begin exe-
cuting, it is called with two arguments. The first
fargc) is the number of command line arguments
the program was invoked with, the second (argv)
is a painter to an array of character strings that
contain the arguments - one per string,
By convention, argv(0] is a pointer to the pro-
gram name, for a program with no other argu-
ments after the program name on the command
line, argc would be 1. The program on the sup-
port disk has two arguments, so argc should be 3
if the command line has been entered correctly,
Argiv[0] is a pointer to the program name,
argclH a pointer to the input file name, and
argv[2] a pointer to the output file name.
The time, date arid page number are written
to the output file, to reduce confusion between
versions and pages once the file has been
printed, There are several time and date routines
available from the C library. I used time() to put
the system time into a long integer. This infor-
mation is in the form of elapsed seconds since
the start of 1970, which is not particulariy user
friendfy.
The routine ctimeQ will translate the long
integer containing these elapsed seconds into
something a little more acceptable.
I have assumed that each line has a maxi-
mum of 30 characters, and that there are a
maximum of 30 lines for each record. Most lines
will be less than this, and most records will have
fewer lines.
I have assumed that each line will be sepa-
rated from the next one with a comma, and
that there will be a newline character at the end
of each record- I have given the output file an
arbitrary line length of 75 characters, and page
length of 2U lines.
All these constants (MAXCOL5, MAXLEN,
DELIM etc) are defined at the beginning of the
program so that they can be changed easily
when required without disturbing any of the
real code.
Those of us without real database facilities
could use this software as a basis to produce
Christmas card lists, address labels for
envelopes, junk mail, chain letters and so on.
The more serious among us could input a file
full of numbers for mathematical processing,
and print out the result of the calculations.
Coming noon: The long-awaited IFF file read-
ing routine for assembler programmers.
Using the program
The program' on the support disk should be run from shell or from the CLI, To run ft, type:
not forgetting to put in pathnames where necessary.
Filel is the name of the input file to be read, and file2 is the name of the output file to be
created, If there are the wrong number of arguments, a suitable message will be displayed,
and the program will e»it.
There is a demonstration input file, imaginatively named "infile", on the support disk. When
run, the program opens the DOS library, the input file and the output file. If the library or files
fail to open, the program exits via a cleanup routine which displays an appropriate message.
The header, consisting of a title, page number, date and time, is written to the output file,
followed by two blank lines. The sub header, with column headings and one blank line is writ-
ten to the output file.
The program reads the first input file record with its name, phone number, and an indefi-
nite number of address lines. These items are separated by commas on the input file. The pro-
gram knows it has finished reading a record when it reaches a newline character,
The name, phone number if any, and address lines are written to the output file in the
appropriate column for display. If the maximum page length is exceeded, a form feed charac-
ter, heading and subheading are written to the output file-
Please note that any previous liles with the same name as the output file will be overwritten.
Processing the data from the input file continues until all the data has been read. The pro-
gram finishes with the cleanup routine displaying the message "ok".
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As the long- awaited CD-ROM drive
finally makes its. way into produc-
tion, the first CD+Midi products are
about to hit the Amiga, The first release has
already arrived in the office - Rhapsody in
Blue, the classic Gershwin creation.
Unfortunately, although the disk is here, the
CD-ROM drive isn't!
Nevertheless I'm assured by Commodore
that this CD and indeed the entire range of
CD releases are equally at home on the new
drive as they are with CDTV itself.
The new format is a curious combination of
digitally recorded music, Midi information
and onscreen support graphics. With the new
drive as with CDTV, all three are available to
enhance the performance.
For the musos among us it's the music that
matters, and more precisely the available Midi
output, in the case of Rhapsody in Blue the
disk contains four separate compositions of
the original piece, each offering a slightly dif-
ferent combination of digitally recorded audio
and suitable Midi accompaniment.
Piano arrangement
The first track offers the original four-part
Midi recorded piano arrangement plus a sepa-
rate Midi channel that contains a composite
of the solo melody with a few other solo lines
designed to complement the existing pre-
recorded elements.
The second variant employs the same Midi
data as the first but produces a different over-
all sound by assigning new voices. The Midi
output is also vastly different to the first, as
the entire piece is output as Midi information.
The Midi output is supplied in the General
Midi format which several synths such as the
Roland SoundCanvas already support. This
particular track takes far more advantage of its
potential Midi output by changing channels
during the sequence,
In the third track, the audio element is
once again, an orchestrated variation. The
The big bonus
Perhaps the biggest attraction for most of us isn't simply sitting
back and watching as our Midi instruments join in with the pre-
recorded elements. If that were the case, even the works of the
masters would soon become as dull as the proverbial dish water.
The big bonus is surely the ability to record the Midi data as il
emerges from the CD, All that's required is a suitable sequencer
with the option to record more than one track at a time and
you're off.
Once captured, the Rhapsody in Blue remix is only a matter of
moments away. Any aspect of the performance can be isolated in
the usual way, cut, pasted and generally bastardised in a manner
that the dance community are all too familiar with. Perhaps
CDi Midi isn't such a great idea after all...
Having said that, the possible benefits as a teaching medium
are immense and if put to proper use even the dance junkies of
this world might learn a few tricks of the trade and consequently
move on to greater things in the future.
CD+Midi - a ground-breaking innovation or another
gimmick in the making? Paul Austin looks at the first
Midi application to make the journey from CDTV
pointed. Although I can't fault the
accuracy and adhesion to the original
manuscript, the actual feel of the piece does
leave a lot to be desired.
Admittedly a Midi replica of a human per-
formance will never match up as far as
warmth and feel are concerned. Nevertheless,
I am sure that with the recent advancements
in the art of aftertouch emulation a lot more
could have been made of what is widely con-
sidered to be one of the great works of the
twentieth century.
New releases?
Well, strange as il may seem, this bit of the
article is largely up to you... After a transat-
lantic tall to an ever-so-friendly spokesper-
son (or Warner New Media, it transpires
that future releases in the CD+Midi range
are largely down to its punter appeal.
if this first release is received welf,
Warner will commit themselves to more
releases - if not, this first release may
indeed be the last.
right channel contains the complete piece,
including the solo melody, white the left con-
tains only the accompaniment. The missing solo
melody is then provided in a. Midi format.
If you're listening to the audio chann
separately, tuning the balance from left
to right simulates the addition of a
Midi instrument playing the miss
ing solo melody.
Midi channel one contains
the composite melody
while channel 11 con-
tains an enhanced
piano solo
designed
specifically
for the Roland
Disklavier. This
particular track is
offset by about half a
second in order to com
pen sale for the delay on the
Disklavier,
This allows the Disklavier to keep
in perfect sync with the rest of the
track. If you don't happen to be th
proud owner of a Disklavier, its specific Midi
data is automatically muted when you're
employing other synths or modules.
On the final track, audio plays the entire
four-track piano arrangement in the right-hand
channel while the accompaniment appears only
in the left. This variation also contains the entire
performance in Midi. If you employ several Midi
channels, the complete piece can then be
played solely via Mid
Channel one contains the enhanced solo
piano while channels two,
three and four play the
accompanying piano
parts. Roland's Disklavier
makes another appear-
ance - a duplicate of the
data in channels one to
four is copied and delayed
on channels 11 through
to 14, again to enable the
Disklavier to Sync to the
existing tracks. As before,
if the Disklavier isn't pre-
sent its associated tracks
are muted.
Each track has its own
intro during which a very
American voice details the
ins and outs ol the forth-
coming track, making a
total of eight tracks in all.
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lost people get their first taste of
comms when two friends link their
I compotes with a serial cable to play
games such as Populous against each other.
When it comes down to it, all the fancy
modems, bulletin boards and assorted jargon oJ
the comms world do no more than this - they
just cost more.
The principle of comms is swapping informa-
tion between computers without having to
physically take a disk out of one machine and
put it in another. By wiring the machines directly
or remoteh/, otherwise incompatible computers
can exchange data easily and quickly.
For instance, passing text files from your
Amiga to a friend's Mac is a bind if doing it on
disk. However, link the two machines either
directly by cable or remotely by modem and files
can be squirted backwards and forwards in a jiffy
rather than a |iffy bag.
The first thing you need is some sort of Com-
munications software which will enable the
machines to talk to each other and understand
what's being said. In games such as Populous
this software is built in to the program already
and specifically set up for that game.
For more flexibility you need ft separate pro-
gram such as Ncomm. This allows all sorts of
adjustments to enable you to mstch your com-
puter exactly with the one at the other end of
the line.
Bewildered
Everyone is bewildered when they start wtth
all the |argan such as baud, bits, parity and so
on, but there's no need to understand what the
terms mean in cwder to set the correct values.
All you need in order to dial up a bulletin
board is the phone number. When you connect
you will be given any extra information you
need to optimise your own settings.
Modems too are often talked about in terms
of mystique. What with jargon such as V22bis r
HST, MNP conection and so on bandied about,
it's easy to lose sight of the fact that a modem is
simply a box which connects your Amiga to the
telephone line,
As a beginner you don't need to spend much
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modem. Enttt at, attain tUnti are pretty hmy mtth
around 6,000 svhfsrihen trying to get a look In
Charges art around £1 to 13 per hmir pirn BT cats,
depending an the time at day
Pat Winstanley shows you how to transfer files
around the country in a jiffy - not in a |iffy bag!
on a modem. If all you are
likely to do is potter around
on your local bulletin board
for an hour a week then
speed is relatively unimpor-
tant.
it only really comes into
play when you start down-
loading and uploading games
and other programs, Even
then you need to work out
whether the capital cost of a
high-speed modem is likely to
be recouped over a reason-
able period by correspond-
ingly lower phone bills.
Right then, you've bought
a cheap second-hand modem for under a hun-
dred quid, found some comms software to go
with it and connected everything up to the tele-
phone line. Where do you go Irom here?
A good introduction to comms is your local
bulletin board system {BBS). These are usually run
from somebody's home with some sort of per-
sonal computer, a hard drive to store information,
and special software to allow the system to njn as
a host, The person running things is the system
operator (sysop) and his or her word is law while
you are a guest on the system,
Etiquette is all important here as most boards
are run at the sysop's expense. If you start abus-
ing that generosity you are likely to find yourself
barred from the system altogether.
So what's the etiquette? Basically it involves
putting as much into the system as you take out
of it, obeying any local rules for logging off and
generally not making a nuisance of yourself to
either the sysop or other board users.
Most boards have a good selection of PD and
shareware available for download but it's poor
practice to simply copy everything off the board
and put nothing back,
If yquj don't have any new files to send up to
the board you can contribute by becoming active
in the message areas which are like giant letters
pages. These are either local to a particular board,
or part of a large network covering the whole
country where sysops of different boards pass
their daily messages on to the next board in the
chain, and receive a similar batch from another
board.
For instance, this morning I read a message on
my local board - Aspects in Manchester - which
had been routed to me from Scotland. At this
moment there is a reply from me waiting to head
back where it will probably be read tomorrow,
Although it usually costs nothing except tele-
phone time to log on to a BES, you will often be
granted extra privileges if you donate a small
amount to the sysop. It's a good idea to do this
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started. Bent worry about the jargon - It's much eatier
than It looks. Mail boards alio give a list of numbers
tor other total flflji
anyway since he has to pay his phone bill too!
For about £5 to £10 you are likely to have an
extended time limit on the board, more down-
load facilities and the glow of knowing you are
an active part of the community. It's rather like
the concept o* shareware - try it for free, then if
you like and continue to use it, make a contribu-
tion to the originator.
While bulletin boards are run on an amateur
enthusiast basis - albeit in a very professional
manner - there are also more businesslike
boards available alt over the world, These con-
ferencing systems unfortunately cost money, In
addition to telephone charges you also have to
pay a charge to the system for the amount of
time you spend on line.
Uneconomic
However, many facilities are available which
are simply uneconomic for smaller boards. For
instance, when I've finished this column, it and
the illustrations will be sent via a private mail
system direct to AC.
Because of the privacy, business users can be
sure of confidentiality - something lacking on
BBSs. Messages can be sent ail over the world,
although this incurs an additional small charge.
Within the system itself are many conference
areas covering everything from model rockets
to Cray simulators on the Amiga (I kid you
not!'). Amiga Computing has an Ezra, conference
and competitor magazines also have their own
areas.
These are open conferences - anyone can
join - but many conferences are closed. To join
a closed conference you must contact the mod-
erator (like a sysop) and ask to be allowed in.
But beware! Comms can be an addictive hobby,
and very expensive if you don't take care.
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Pa
Peter Hickman shows
how our Pacman game
can be rewritten in
AMAL
Welcome to another in-depth look
into the world of AMOS program-
ming. According to my hard disk
this is article number 20, so it's a bit of an anniver-
sary for me.
If you can cast your mind back a couple of
months, we were playing around with simple Bob
movements using AMOS. Our goal was to create a
small Pacman game, which we did. Now we will
look at a different method of creating such a
game, using the AMI05 sub-language AMAL
We took a look at the major AMAL functions in
the last issue so I won't be going into too much
fine detail concerning the basic functions. Instead
we will concentrate on the structure of an AMAL
program.
The first thing to do is load in the Bobs for the
game and set up our default screen stuff, ff you are
unsure how to get these Bobs loaded in - trust me
when I say it's not quite as straightforward as it
sounds - look at the ho* pn this page which con-
tains strict instructions on how to make maximum
use of your Amiga Computing CoverDisk,
Lead "EMEJPIilTES.Jfit.'"
£{re*n Open G,32D,2C3,*n,L0*r(!
Cur* Off
FLasS Off
tls
Get Jfsnte fitttti
Deuble Sjfftr
tutnoacl D
Now comes the time to define our AMAL string.
As- you can see, I have built the program up into
the string AS. AMAL ignores spaces so I have taken
advantage of this to produce a clear piece of code
which is easy to look at and - hopefully - to
understand,
This first line sets up a label "Start;" and after a
brief pause stores the current joystick value in the
register R0:
the Move command works see your AMOS manual.
n»=
Stirt: Ptitit ; let HD-Jt
By using comparisons we can then jump to rou-
tines depending on the current joystick action. As l
have said before, the numbers returned by the joy-
stick are 1=up r 2=down, 4=left, 5=rightand in turn
9=up plus right (8+1=9), 6=down plus left (2+4-6}
and so on.
AfM.Jt '
If nDU . dip night ; "
11 HDU uip Left ; "
J, J = 1.1 + '
JL(=Jl(f
11 aDLl ..up Up ; '
1,1 = 11 + •
H H DL2 Jjip DDiA ; ■
«***♦■
Juip Star; ; "
The next four routines perform the actual
movement of the Bob - for more details of how
,11=11+'
n=*i+
JHMI + 1
*!=« + '
«=«+■
ttat*'
Jlt-lft
ii=IIV
jil="l+'
H=nr
Pure 1 0, D , Z
June Start
Uft: ;
Pgve -10,0,2
Juif Start
"PI ;
•bvi 0,-10^2
Juip Start
3nim: ;
Pnvi o,^a,z
Ju«p Start
Fur LOP-1 To 15
Bill LC'P,*nd(lS0) r lin(Hl0ll],1
t'imil LOP To Bob LOP
nut -OP,*!
Rett Lit
I
hit VjI
Mil Hi
I
Hreet
OK, so you don't want to structure your AMAL pro-
grams, you could shorten them by just using the
UPPERCASE characters. |ust look at the following
AMAL string. If you value your sanity, don't try to
type it in!
A1="S:F
nS=*S*
nl=*J-
*l=a«-
nS=AJ*
*s=«i-
ilTiJ-
iS-it-
nJ=Ji*"
ni=nJ-
nl=*l
«**!♦*
tt-.kt*'
KSUJI;"
ItOUJl; 1
"icW;'
IS;"
kv(w#*
*"D:
10,-10,2;"
Hawing fun? I hope so! The final part of this exciting
instalment gives us an AMAL-controlled player a^d
bad die:
Load "GtHE iPRJTES.W
Scretn Op-en C,32u,2ull, lignites
turs Ofl
Flail rj-if
tli
Set Sprite fllttte
W.M.t 3i.fi f
"ittsbjct D
Sell 1,1 SO, 100,1
3c b 1,20,23,2
The string AS is exactly the same as in the first pro-
gram except that the horizontal and vertical posi-
tions of the player are fed into the external
registers RA and RB-
These are then read inside the baddie control
program stored in Bl to make that the evil beastie
tracks us down I
!(=■ Start: Ptut* ; Lei Rfl=Jl .
«=.«♦■ Lt\ Bn^l ; Let R6= T |
«=Htf If toil Juip HI sit ; "
«=«f If nGU Juip Left ; "
*§»«+' [f 4011 Jgip l;p ; '
U-KW If tm Juip Ibm- i •
«=«f Juip Start ; "
U=.Mfain*t: ; '
«=A»f Utit 10,D,2 ; "
«=Hf Juip Start ; "
«,J = Mt'Lett[ i "
ti=ll+" Nave -111,1,2 ; "
«=«*' Juip Start ; "
U=Ut"Up: : ■
It***' Sort 11,-10,! ; "
JtS = Mf- Juip Start J "
HtMt'twa: ; "
U = Hl+' Rdvt 11,111,2 i •
AI=Al+" Juip Start ; -
1
Bl=91t"Jtnrt: tana : "
91= Sit ' Ef t>RJL Juip tig it ; "
9$=9lf If HM Juip Left ; "
Bt=a»f if l»RB Juip Op ; ■
3i=asf :f r<ns Juip :cui ; "
ai=Si»" Juip St»rt ; -
Btsgit-light: ; "
91=Bit h Ngrt 10,0,2 ; "
9i=«t h Juip Start ; "
SJ=8tfLift: ; "
Bi=8i+" nm -1D,Q,2 ; "
ai=Bi+" Juip Start ; "
Itsflt+'lp- ; '
91=Sit" Ho« D.-10,! ; "
B»=8»t" Juip St*rt ; *
3f=Kt"toMi: ; '
3t=9it" na*t 0,1D,2 ; "
Bt=8it" Juip Start ; "
thanret 1 Te Bob 1
tea 1 Jli
tbannel I Tp Bob f
ApbL 2,31
(ill On 1
lift Vbl.
*ra. On I
Ifpeat
In: SICRE
Jrtil Bet toHl>
3c o*
Print "TOU ARE OH;!"! 1CUR SCORE IS"
;SC0RE
Update
\\M\m Li
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That brings us to the end of a very practical col-
umn - hopefully in the nest issue I should have
some editing news about the future ol AMOS.
Save your typing fingers!
All of the stuff that I list on this page can also be found on the CoverDisk. To load the programs,
first load your copy of AMOS, Insert the CoverDtsk and move your mouse up to the first item at
the lop left of themenu,
Click with the right button and the word "RUN" should be replaced by "LOAD'- Now click with
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have appeared inside the file selector box,, press the right mouse key and that list will be replaced
with another! This new list is made up from the current devices recognised by your Amiga, includ-
ing the CoverDisk
All you have to do now is clidt on the name of the CoverDisk - CoverDisk31 - and wait for the
files to be listed. Nearly there! The final step is to click on the directory 'AMOS", wait for the list
of files to appear and then click on the SelDir box.
Phew, what an explanation! To cap It all, if you own Easy AMOS it's all different - but that's
another story!
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You get two Compugraphic fonts in
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shrunk to only one - so for heading! and fancy
titles you need to use every trick up your
sleeve if you want to avoid paying out for
mare,
Probably the most striking instant change
you can make is la fill characters with a pat-
tern instead of using solid black. This can be
achieved with just a few mouse clicks.
Highlight the text you want to fill with a
pattern bv dr.iqgmg the text cursor Over it,
and then select the Bold style from the Type
menu - this will thicken the letters so the pat-
tern stands out more, Leave the tent high-
lighted and choose Pattern from the Type
menu, A requester appears with a range of
"dotty" patterns along the top and 16 fancy
fill patterns below.
Shades of grey
Select the fill pattern you like best and dick
on OK. Now click the Null Pointer gadget to
see the results. The "dotty" patterns along the
top simulate levels of grey, from solid white to
almost solid black.
It's a bit like the shades of grey in a 1 6
colour greyscale image - the solid white pat-
tern is the same as the white colour 15,15,15
on the RGB scale, the nest pattern to the right
is like 14, 14,1 4 on the RGB scale, and so on
across to the pattern on the far right which is
....... .„. ■— ■— .f.p^J.m -,- t
' 1 !■ . 1 —
Ben Pointer looks at some of the ways you
can tart up your text in PageSetter II
like 1,1,1 on the RGB scale. To
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should select the None but-
ton.
The patterns that get
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printer are similar to those
produced by PostScript laser
printers for shades ol grey,
though laser resolution is a bit
better, of course.
Sometimes filled text looks
.a bit silly, especially if the pat-
tern is a sparse one, but you
can liven it up by adding an
outline to the text - a thin
solid black line around the
edges of the characters.
Again, this is just a few
mouse clkks away. Highlight
your text again and select the
Outline style from the Type
menu. That style gets
"added" to the Bold style we
selected previously. Select the
Null Pointer to see the new
look.
Getting white-on black
I gel so many letters asking how to get white letters on a black
background, or a "woo" as it is known in the trade,
It's actually quite simple once you've been let In on the
secret. First drag out a fairly large rectangle using the Draw
Rectangle tool in the lower half ol the tool box, then select Fill
Pattern from the Draw menu.
The requester that appears looks and acts exactly the same as
the requester we use to fill text. To gel a solid black box, click
on the black fill pattern, which is top left in the group of 16 pal
terns below the grey levels strip. Click OK to confirm your
choice
The rectangle should turn black. If it doesn't it means you are
in wireframe mode - select Wireframe Graphics from the
Preferences menu to switch wireframes off. Now drag out a text
box on top of the black rectangle, using the Text Box tool in the
top half of the tool box. Select the Text tool, click in the text
bo* and select a large point sue and the Bold style. Now type a
few letters.
Drag the cursor over the text to highlight it, select Pattern
from the Type menu, click on the solid white colour in the grey
levels strip, and click OK. Hit the Null Pointer gadget to see your
wob.
All you have to do now is adjust the black hox to fit neatly
around the white text.
If the text still looks a bit
wishy-washy, one further trick we can use is to
add a shadow behind it- Yet again, all we need
to do is highlight the text and select the
Shadow style from the Type menu. It gets
added to Bold and Outline, and if you click on
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the Null Pointer gadget you'll see that we have
a great 30 look.
The shadow is added slightly to the right of
and below the text, and there's no way of
changing that style, if you want a shadow that
is to the left and above, you'll have to do it by
hand.
Simply Clone the box that contains the text
that is to be shadowed, highlight the text in
this new box, change its style to just Bold and
the fill Pattern (from the Type menu) to None.
Now that it's solid black again, use the
mouse to position it on top of the patterned
text slightly to the left and above it. To stamp
the shadow in place behind the patterned text,
click the Send to Back gadget (top right of the
lower set of gadgets in the tool box).
That's it - see you next month.
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MULTIMEDIA
Schizophrenic add-on
As reported last month. Commodore
have decided that the add-on drive for
the A500, previously Ihe A69Q, will
now be renamed the A570. This has annoyed
some in the business who feel the new name will
just confuse the public
Developers have already started taking delivery
of A690 drives for the A500, and with A690 labels
and manuals these could become collectors'
items in years to come!!
The A570 is now in production and wilt ship at
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European distribution centres before they Launch,
as they do not want to repeat past mistakes
where they have launched a product that was
then not available for weeks.
One of the best selling CDTV titles so far has
been Music Maker, so it is high time that I
reviewed it, especially as some of the graphics
code in it was written by me! Despite doing the
initial work for this way back in November 1 990,
when there were only six CDTVs in the country
and all of them NTSC models, I have only
recently got a copy of this disc.
Music Maker is a sort of karaqke-with -instru-
ments affair. Rather than singing along to the
worst songs in the world, you can play along to
them with your choice of instruments, using your
infra red controller.
Illuminated
It is not nearly as complicated as it seems. The
keypad is set up so it is easy to jump from one
note to the next, and the keys are illuminated
onscreen so you can see what you should be
playing.
There are 16 music tracks on the disk, ail of
them superb rerecordings of classic tracks like Let
it Be, Money for Nothing, Crockett's Theme and
Yesterday- These tracks are played as CD-Audio
from the disk in exactly the same way that a stan-
dard audio CD is played.
Written by Jim Hawkins - the programmer
responsible for the Opus-1 Music Language for
the Amiga among other
products - it boasts
Commodore's CD-ROM drive gets a rename.
Jolyon Ralph reports its re-christening...
the best Amiga-generated sound I have ever heard.
Using all four Amiga channels to play one instru-
ment in stereo with proper reverb and decay, it
makes the CDTV sound as good as a professional
keyboard,
Once you get bored of pl-aying Money Tor
Nothing on the violin for the frftieth time, you can
settle down with some friends (if you have any left
at this point) and play the musk quiz. While it
seems very simple, almost to the point of being
tacky, it is quite fun, and certainly adds to the disc.
Warning
A word of warning - don't buy it yet if ydu are
getting the A570 CD-ROM, as the keypad on the
ASOO and on the CDTV remote are the opposite
way around (the 1 is on the top of the CDTV
remote control numeric pad). A version that has
an alternate keypad layout for A500 users
is currently being written and will be
in the shops very soon.
The first CDTV litte contain-
ing CDXL quarter-screen
video has just been
released - The Heroic
Age of Space Flight:
NASA - the 25th
Year, by Troika
Multimedia, inc.
CDXL (which
stands for the
incredibly uninter-
Uu the Jukebox in
Mink MaAcr m
fiiJi-n la lilt- trucks.
midi
lot ifjiiiz vr 'fits jlijijI'j iuu
Menu itrttni from Mmjjc Maker
a sting Compact Disc Transfer List) is a method
CDTV developers can use to get video clips into
products. This allows sequences of quarter screen
HAM pictures digitised from video, along with a
sampled soundtrack, to be played back directly
from CD.
This title contains over SO minutes of video taken
from a 1983 NASA documentary. The whole docu-
mentary can be viewed, or clips can be viewed in
conjunction with a database of information on
NASA's aeronautical and space achievements.
It is Ibted as an educational title. As a History of
the US National Aeronautical and Space
Administration, its educational uses in Europe may
be limited, but the video is quite interesting.
The quality is not bad, but surfers from the limi-
tations of the Amiga Hold and Modify mode. A tiny
quarter screen moving picture su mounded with a
large black border, although it is the best current
technology can offer, doesn't really work that wed.
It's like watching a video on a tiny Cask? LCD televi-
sion.
Despite this, the product is fun, and it's quite
cheap too, listed at (24.95, or around £16. The
technology may not improve to the point where
you can get Full Motion Video from a CD in the
near future, but I expect more titles will: start using
CDXL quarter-screen video in more interesting
ways.
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delighted to have Darren on board and are
sure he will be an instant hit with our
readers. Darren has been an Amiga user for
almost eight weeks and fondiy remembers
the days when he was quite content to
program his tumbie drier and construct
hardware projects from bits and pieces he
found round the back of his local Tandy
store every night.
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Amiga - but then
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Darren, \ have
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have an established name like Darren on
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Ferguson Smith .
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GHS rechnoloffl 99
CJS '44
GoirJstai 110
Gordon Harwood ...12-37, 56
Hawkwrll Electron ics....,.1 l&
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Inpholink 59
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Microdrive . 100
Millennium Micros .59
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Modernama. 148
NBPDL M«
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New Image* Videos 152
Omega Pro eds 120
Panasenft -1 7
Pathfinder PD , IW
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Power Computing I I
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Submachine ..■■■20
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Eagle Software 7
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On line Entertainment 5
Satum Software IS
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\fM Amiga Campvtins May 1992
.it Qin'\ am IfJf .ihe fht plarwer sings-
KCS POWER PC BOARD FOR YOUR AMIGA
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Which leaves the cost of an AM IGA/PC just £_,__
For so little outlay the Power PC Board turns your Amiga into an up and
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Run heavyweight professional PC software on your Amiga/PC
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• PAUSE can be activated at any time during a game or
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Images can now be grabbed from either colour
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source, The traditional method of holding three
colour filters in front of your video camera is certainly
a thing of (he past. Because Vidi Splits the RGB
colours electronically there are no focussing or
movement problems experienced by some of our
slower competitors. Lighting is also less of an issue
as light is not being shut out by lens filters. Put all
this together with an already proven Vidi-
A miga/V id i Chrome combination and achieve what
is probably the most consistant and accurate high
quality 4096 colour images ever seen on the Amiga.
The colour solution is fully compatible with all
Amiga's from a standard A500 to the ultimate A3000.
No additional RAM is required to get up and running.
You will see from independent review
comments that we are undoubtedly their first choice
and that was before the complete solution was
launched- If you have just purchased your Amiga
and are not sure what to buy next, then just read
the comments or send for full review and demo disk.
Features ...
• Grab mono images Irom any video
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• Capture colour images Irom any still
video source.
• Digitise up to 16 mono frames on a
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• Animate t6 shade images at different
speeds,
• Create windows in both mono &. colour.
• Cut S Paste areas from one frame lo
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• Hardware and software brightness &
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• Choice of capture resolutions standard
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